[PRL] Why knowing Haskell is bad

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   From: Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
   Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:20:01 -0400

   It's what I want to achieve (roughly) and I know, I do so. Read and  
   weep.

   --> http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog.php?id=1107301645

   Someone has to create an applicative version of Java/C# libs, which  
   is what my ECOOP talk proposed. I bet that, plus some syntax, would  
   go a long ways to better software dev/programming

Insufficient, I think, to simply whip up some pure functional libs for Java &
C#. Would the pragmatics be there? That is, would you get the kind of
performance you'd get using those idioms in MLton? Cost models and notational
overhead both have impact on how programmers program.

I think it would be better to start fresh, as PLT is doing with Honu.
    -Olin