Are you serious? SPJ's work has been incredibly instrumental in bringing functional features (such as LINQ) to C# See: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/simon-pe

Are you serious? SPJ's work has been incredibly instrumental in bringing functional features (such as LINQ) to C# See: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/simon-peyton-jones-about-mainstream-programming-languages http://www.infoq.com/interviews/simon-peyton-jones-about-mai... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/haskell-retrospective/ecoop-july09.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...