"Persistence, though necessary for success and considered a virtue by many, can also have a negative impact on health." http://www.economist.com/science...
So, the side effect of focusing on our goals was the creation of a high performance, general purpose functional language and runtime for the Java platform. A critical feature is tight integration with the Java language to enable logic best expressed in more algebraic forms (especially data treatments and transformations) to be integrated with regular OO application logic.
- Nick Sieger
@AkitaOnRails See prev tweet, playing around w/ kana and trying to come with a transliteration of JRuby. But it seems tech prefers Roman.