>> When will we see the Haskell# language?
>
> I'm pretty sure the whole .NET bit is too OO to make that useful.There's
> way too much stateful stuff (like I/O) that you'd want to use from .NET
> to make it reasonable to have a purely function .net language.

Haskell already supports a wide range of I/O operations. That's pretty 
stateful, and it's not a problem.

Yeah, if you wanted to talk to the .NET libraries, it would all end up 
being monadic. (Even the .NET stuff that's actually pure - since it 
isn't /marked/ as pure.) But it would still work fine.

I think it's probably vacuous to try to estimate how "useful" it would 
be without actually trying it...

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