16 ms·While they work for Microsoft Research, they won''t be implementing their ideas in commercial products.by sciurus 15y agoWhile they work for Microsoft Research, they won''t be implementing their ideas in commercial products.paperwork 15y agoI 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 agoAnd there's also F#.