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From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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Haskell and the Decision to Make Pure Functional Programming Practical

Haskell emerged from a committee effort to give the lazy functional-programming community one common language, then turned purity, type classes and monadic I/O into practical tools for building real programs.

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Cabal and Hackage: Building a Shared Package Ecosystem for Haskell

Cabal standardized how Haskell packages describe and build themselves, while Hackage supplied a central public archive that tools such as cabal-install could resolve and download.

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