In case anyone is interested, the semicoherent run-on sentence that is the second-to-last paragraph of this rant references GHC, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. It was started in 1989, so I don't know what "fourty years in two years time" could possibly mean. Perl6 borrows quite a bit from Haskell, so it's worth reading up on if you're into that kind of thing.