Invisible wrote:
> But alas, it's not purely functional,

Yeah. I don't think you could get a real distributed language with 
everything being truly functional, could you? Certainly you couldn't do 
things like talking to device drivers in a *purely* functional way, 
methinks.  I mean, what's the functional equivalent of "the machine 
running the calculation just burst into flames"? :-)  What's the 
functional equivalent of "we've just released a new version of this 
function"?

> and the general style just seemed 
> untidy and complicated. It's just not my cup of tea...

Yep. Altho the language itself seems pretty simple and straightforward, 
the infrastructure used to support installs and reliability and such is 
pretty dense. Lots of forward references to stuff I haven't read yet, 
and I haven't yet found the roadmap to the right order to read things 
in. :-)

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