"The author prefers it" is suddenly a problem with a language? Have a look at Clojure; it's a very nice language on its own merits. (I particularly like the com

"The author prefers it" is suddenly a problem with a language? Have a look at Clojure; it's a very nice language on its own merits. (I particularly like the combination of software transactional memory with by-default immutable data structures.)