The answer to that is surprisingly simple: no. Because Haskell didn't exist at the time. Neither did Erlang. But LISP did, but was just too expensive and memory hungry for mere mortals such as me. I had to learn all this on a shoestring budget working an 8 hour job and barely having left over enough money for food after rent, taxes and insurance. It took a long time before I was able to afford a floppy drive, much less a half decent computer, one that would be able to run LISP. And those language packs weren't cheap either and open source wasn't really a thing yet (but shareware actually was).
