Support for functional programming paradigm

[Glen Perkins]

I was aware of Nemerle but not Scala. Thanks for the pointers to both.

There are lots of great ideas in all the nearly unused languages out there. Too
bad developing your own language is such a herculean task that getting what you
really want is almost impossible. You either devote your life to it (think of
Walter, Guido, Matz, Bjarne, etc.) and get what you want, or you find someone else
who's already devoting HIS life to something similar to what you want and try to
persuade him to modify it. The latter is...well, you know. (And you can hardly
blame them. You devote your life to creating something, usually without pay, and
the least you deserve is a language that's exactly what YOU want.)

I hope Walter spends time playing with non-C-like languages and decides he wants
more of that power in HIS language. He may already be doing exactly that.