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how is consistently publishing papers and pushing the boundaries of PL further "keeping ideas disruptive to their current streams of income under control"? I m

how is consistently publishing papers and pushing the boundaries of PL further "keeping ideas disruptive to their current streams of income under control"? I mean the ideas are not hoarded, they are published, F# is open sourced and SPJ hacks on haskell. Where did you draw your conclusion from? Oh wait, I forgot this is HN.

sciurus 15y ago
While they work for Microsoft Research, they won''t be implementing their ideas in commercial products.
- paperwork 15y ago
  I think C# disproves this fairly well. C# has lambda functions, monads, type inference (either now or next version). People like Eric Meijer have moved from pure research to product groups.
  - eru 15y ago
    And there's also F#.