This series of posts talks about some queer figures in the history of computing: Rhizome > blog > A Queer History of Computing
Two of the people covered: Christopher Strachey (part 3) and Peter Landin (part 4), have a strong connection to Haskell (See A History of Haskell: Being Lazy with Class).
Strachey helped found the field of denotational semantics, and was one of David Turner’s D.Phil supervisors. David Turner’s Miranda programming language was highly influential in the design of Haskell.
Landin is known for inventing the off-side rule, where indentation determines the scope of blocks. He also developed the SECD abstract machine, which was influential in the development of functional languages.