The presentation reads as a nice advertisement for Clojure. I do not like Clojure because it runs on JVM and all the Java stuff leaves a bitter taste in my mout

The presentation reads as a nice advertisement for Clojure. I do not like Clojure because it runs on JVM and all the Java stuff leaves a bitter taste in my mouth - it is a language that was forced down our throats by industry. If they really want to rewrite R from the start to create a new language why don't they use Haskell? It will compile to machine code, it is ready for using multiple cores, it does not embrace JVM. My 2 cents