Proceedings of the first ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Haskell

Welcome to the 1st ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium -- Haskell'08. The Haskell Symposium continues in the tradition of the Haskell Workshops; a forum for discussing experiences with Haskell, and exploring possible future developments for the language, including all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell. The name change reflects the steady increase of influence of the Haskell Workshop on the wider community, as well as sustained high quality submissions making the acceptance process highly competitive. The call for papers attracted 28 submissions. Each paper was given to three members to review, and in several cases additional reviews were solicited. The submissions were discussed during a 5 day virtual PC meeting using easychair, and the Program Committee selected ten submissions for presentation and publication in these proceedings.