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Why isn't Microsoft trying out Haskell? Reading "Coders at Work" I was surprised to learn that research/development of Haskell's GHC is financed almost entirely
by old-gregg 17y ago
Why isn't Microsoft trying out Haskell? Reading "Coders at Work" I was surprised to learn that research/development of Haskell's GHC is financed almost entirely by Microsoft, yet they aren't using it even for internal purposes as far as I know. And for their own functional language (F#) they picked ML to build on.
I wonder why.
- phren0logy 17y agoI don't remember where I saw this, but I recall reading that they actually considered it. Ultimately, however, the pure functional style just didn't jive with .Net very well, so F# was born to allow functional style to live along side of the rest of .Net comfortably. The F# lite syntax also takes some cues from Haskell.