You might argue that Erlang has influenced Haskell. (E.g. Erlang -> Haskell exists). In two respects: * the view patterns syntax was built to enable bit level

You might argue that Erlang has influenced Haskell. (E.g. Erlang -> Haskell exists). In two respects: * the view patterns syntax was built to enable bit level parsing, inspired by the Erlang support (I wrote the binary library to emulate Erlang support for IP header parsing). More recently, * Cloud Haskell http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ErlangInHaskell http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ErlangInHaskell