scott wrote:
>> If all you're after is the ultimate machine efficiency, C can probably 
>> still do that better than almost any other language, given enough skill.
>>
>> But what about factors such as code size, readability, 
>> maintainability, code reuse, polymorphism, etc etc etc?
> 
> Yeh you're right, maybe MS wrote Vista in Haskell ;-)

Maybe if they *had* written it in Haskell it would have come to market 
much faster, cheaper, and it would have actually *worked* properly. :-P


OK, joking aside, I present the following seriously weird fact:

   Half the developers working on Haskell are Micro$oft employees.

I can't begin to imagine in what universe that even makes sense - M$ is 
pushing F#, not Haskell. So why...? WTF...? Besides, M$ is renowned to 
promoting low-quality badly-written software. Why would they care about 
a high-quality language like Haskell? It all makes no sense...

I present a second fact, which only seems weird considering the first one:

   The majority of non-trivial Haskell code doesn't work properly on 
Windoze. Only Linux. Or maybe Mac OS. But not Windoze.

So M$ are paying people to develop stuff that doesn't even propperly 
support M$'s own flagship product...? OK, I'm completely lost now!

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