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pjmlp • today at 5:46 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Which certainly has to do with it being initially developed at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and not plain Microsoft.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40472977

https://web.archive.org/web/20190111203733/https://blogs.msd...

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exceptione • today at 6:09 PM

Ah, thanks. That must be the link with Simon Peyton Jones as well. Seems to be another case of a marketing machine running away with foundational research coming from Europe.*

* no hard feelings

brg • today at 5:51 PM

I would argue that the success has more to do with DevDiv being the strongest technical organization at MS than its provenance.

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