[Haskell] Haskell concepts in the next Visual Basic

Martin Erwig erwig at eecs.oregonstate.edu
Tue Apr 11 14:45:56 EDT 2006


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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