> to some functional programmers this sounds bad because hardware should make writing functional language compilers easy. People who know about hardware make a

> to some functional programmers this sounds bad because hardware should make writing functional language compilers easy. People who know about hardware make a different conclusion - that hardware is just fine, as Ken Thompson said, "the PDP-11 is a fine Lisp machine, it's not a language special enough to warrant a specialized machine." Wow, really? C got a lot of things wrong, but the one thing that it got right is its abstract model of the machine. As a functional programmer, rather than specialized hardware, what I want is functional languages designed to target the abstract C machine. (Though maybe I am in a minority.) > The FPGA, with its explicit management of every imaginable resource, is the worst target for a general-purpose functional programming language. Explicit resource management is compatible with functional programming, but it requires a type system capable of undestanding the ephemeral nature of resources, à la Rust.