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Question -- clearly, when you look at Haskell, you see abstract algebra. Were Stepanov's ideas big influencers of Haskell, or vice versa, or neither?



Stepanov and Musser were working on generic programming in the 80s[0][1], which predates Haskell. I suspect parametric polymorphism was common in the FP world by that time, but I don't know whether it was used as an organising principle to the extent that Stepanov promotes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Musser




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