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by cosmos64 309 days ago
.NET was initially planned as a multi language VM.

The first plan was to bring over Haskell, and Don (the creator of F#) implemented support for generics in dotnet.

The reason, why C# has an edge over Java, when it comes to generics. ;)

Then he noticed that Haskell wouldn't run on that runtime back then, and they chose OCaml instead.