OT (partially): about promotion of integers

[Walter Bright]

On 12/11/2012 5:05 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>
>> ML has been around for 30-40 years, and has failed to catch on.
>
> OcaML, Haskell, F#, and so on are all languages derived more or less directly
> from ML, that share many of its ideas. Has Haskell caught on? :-)

Haskell is the language that everyone loves to learn and talk about, and few 
actually use.

And it's significantly slower than D, in unfixable ways.