Well, technically, Haskell is an evolution of Miranda (which had much the same syntax, and basically co-eveolved alongside ML).

My main reaction is someone is trying to drive traffic to his blog by saying stupid stuff. So I'm commenting here rather than feeding the animals... Meanwhile, I'll happily sit down in a room and discuss PL design with the folks responsible for C#, F#, and LINQ --- alongside Scala, Java, and Fortress folks.