Support for functional programming paradigm

[Waldemar]

== Quote from Glen Perkins (please at dontEmail.com)'s article
> 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

There is also the D mixin which may be the closest to what you describe.

> 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.