Haskell Platform

Every programming language needs a proper development environment. The Haskell Platform is created for writing, editing and compiling Haskell code.

Haskell is a functional language, which means that it relies on mathematical functions to build the structure and the element of a computer program.

Installing the development environment is a simple job but it may take some time for the entire operation to complete. However, at the end of the operation everything is ready and you can start coding.

It is a simple IDE (interactive development environment) that does not offer too much support, which is not particularly useful for beginners.

On the other hand, if you are sufficiently skilled in Haskell programming the platform does not matter quite that much, although it can have an impact on the time required to finish a project.

The Haskell Platform includes a tool that can assess the main expression and makes available ta multicore language runtime.

Among the developer tools present in the package there is Haddock, a comprehensive documentation tool for this programming language. An interactive, imperative-style debugger, called GHCi, is also on the list of components.

Editing functionality in Haskell Platform extends to the basic cut/copy/paste commands, deleting, selecting the entire code and clearing the screen in order to start afresh.

Configuring the application is a simple task that touches on modifying the font face, size, color to something that suits you better. The background color can also be changed, together with the one for highlighting errors. All alterations can be previewed before they are applied.

Haskell Platform seems to provide a mature environment more suitable to experienced user that have good command of Haskell programming language; but it makes available the necessary tools for completing a project.