The comment on F# is rather deranged. CIL has had functional languages in mind since its inception, particularly because of explicit tailcall support. If anyt

The comment on F# is rather deranged. CIL has had functional languages in mind since its inception, particularly because of explicit tailcall support. If anything, it provides all the low-level building blocks the JVM lacks that enable efficient lowering strategy (even if F# does so relatively conservatively and does not push .NET like it could have).