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Re:Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language by vmchale on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:44PM (#18620813)
> Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java,

I don't think this is true. Java is not a good language for compilers in any case, and it would cause me to trust the language less, especially if they were claiming it was a "functional programming language"

Re:Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language by angara on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:41PM (#18621322)
> Java is not a good language for compilers

Could you elaborate?