Haskell concepts in the next Visual Basic
11 Apr
2006
11 Apr
'06
6:18 p.m.
In the recent discussion on "Haskell as a disruptive technology" I predicted that MS would incorporate functional programming into its languages. See here for details. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1406 Paul.
11 Apr
11 Apr
6:45 p.m.
On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
In the recent discussion on "Haskell as a disruptive technology" I predicted that MS would incorporate functional programming into its languages.
MS does this already, for quite some time. The product is called ... Excel. Any spreadsheet is a non-recursive first-order functional program. From this point of view functional programming is the by far most widely used programming paradigm :) -- Martin
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