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		sciurus on Aug 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Linux mastered Wall Street While they work for Microsoft Research, they won''t be implementing their ideas in commercial products.

paperwork on Aug 16, 2011 [–]

I think C# disproves this fairly well. C# has lambda functions, monads, type inference (either now or next version). People like Eric Meijer have moved from pure research to product groups.

eru on Aug 16, 2011 | [–]

And there's also F#.

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