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From: Wolfgang Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?
>
>Step 1: MS introduces Haskell with all their marketing power
>
>Step 2: VisualBasic programmers switch to Haskell after having
> read about Haskell in all those colorful magazines.
>
>Step 3: As they don't understand the concept of functional
> languages, they complain about it. MS 'improves'
> Haskell by adding C-like constructs and variable
> assignments to the language. It is now neither C nor
> functional, but they love it (not the member of this
> list I suppose).
Stop dreaming and let's get back to work. Microsoft is NOT
interested in Haskell; they already have a functional language
that satisfies step 3: JScript, used in more web pages than Java
and soon taking over VB in Outlook98 and Visual Studio.
http://www.microsoft.com/Scripting/JScript/Jslang/jsobjFunction.htm.
http://premium.microsoft.com/msdn/library/periodic/period98/html/mind0498rs.htm
> Look what they have done to HTML, and you know what I mean.
What's wrong with DHTML? Netscape has done the same, but slightly
different.
