C# is a strange mix of Delphi's ideas and Java syntax and implementation.  The
main designer and his team was bought by M$ from Borland where they worked on
Delphi.  In fact, he was also Turbopascal implementer.

BTW, Orchid, you know some major Haskell designers and implementers work for M$,
right?  Simon Peyton Jones works at M$ Research, long after he started work on
Haskell.  Erik Meijer too.  The thing is, many ideas of Haskell, like monadic
IO are present in .NET nowadays in a builtin framework named LINK.

You may find the ideas of Erik Meijer somewhat interesting:
http://research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/Papers/fpca91.pdf
http://research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/

the first paper is interesting, but Meijer is an idiosyncratic personality with
strong opinions.  In his view, Haskell is just a scripting language... ;)

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