> Although the newcomer C# was only introduced ten years
> ago, there is little in the language to reflect the
> thirty years of research into programming languages since
> C++ was introduced.
Not a huge fan of C#, but he couldn't have picked a worse example for language stagnation.
I can say form experience that C# has several interesting features built on research from Haskell, just gotta probe the edges a bit. And once you probe the edges too hard your code becomes worthless for the standard blub programmer who'd prefer not have to learn the syntax.