I remember looking at Clean at the time when Haskell98 was new. It had uniqueness types at the time and this seemed really cool for efficient destructive updates. But all the excitement was with Haskell.
I can still open the full text of the offending books as html and as plain text. The EPUB and Kindle files are blocked, however. Maybe that's why there are conflicting reports.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications?...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352796