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by pjmlp 1759 days ago
Not necessarily Haskell, although it would be nice, there are already enough ML influences in modern languages, with exception of Go.

Confessions of a used programming language salesman

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1297027.1297078

> As a result, functional programming has finally reached the masses, except that it is called Visual Basic 9 instead of Haskell 98.