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I get the feeling that there's a bunch of people working for, or being paid by, Microsoft who really love functional programming. Some of Microsoft's best outputs comes from those teams/folks.

It could just be a coincidence/confirmation bias, so I wonder if there's actually something to that.

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If you care about programming enough to really have preferences on things like functional or OO or other kinds of "deep" topics, then you're invested.

> I get the feeling that there's a bunch of people working for, or being paid by, Microsoft who really love functional programming.

Simon Peyton Jones, Simon Marlow, Edward Kmett, Conal Elliott, and I’m sure a lot of other people with fundamental contributions to the Haskell ecosystem who I can’t remember offhand all work or previously worked at Microsoft Research, so that part is just straightforwardly true.

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