Re: Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?

[Wolfgang Beck]

Step 1: MS introduces Haskell with all their marketing power

Step 2: VisualBasic programmers switch to Haskell after having
        read about Haskell in all those colorful magazines.

Step 3: As they don't understand the concept of functional
        languages, they complain about it. MS 'improves'
        Haskell by adding C-like constructs and variable
        assignments to the language.  It is now neither C nor
        functional, but they love it (not the member of this
        list I suppose).

Look what they have done to HTML, and you know what I mean.


Wolfgang Beck