> However, with aggressive deforestation and JIT it would make for an interesting rival. SERIES had a lot of early work in deforestation and almost made it int

> However, with aggressive deforestation and JIT it would make for an interesting rival. SERIES had a lot of early work in deforestation and almost made it into the Common Lisp standard: http://series.sourceforge.net/ http://series.sourceforge.net/ I want to see NESL (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html) brought back for modern systems. Even StarLisp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp) makes Hadoop look absolutely retarded.