[ephaeton]

Congratulations! It's so interesting to witness how "techniques of the past" make a grand return in "new" programming languages that "gained" features from 4 to 7 decades ago to support this programming style. "records, pattern matching, `with` expressions, sum and product types" - in my upbringing, this stuff is decidedly "old-school FP". People going through their learning curve 30 years later than I have will see what I had learned as "dead, possibly failed-forever FP ideas" as the "we tried a lot of stuff but this seemed to be the best way to do it after all" of their time.

[anthk]

So Java took to up 30 years to mimic Common Lisp? Ok, CL took almost 20 to get a proper non-propietary GUI (not LispWorks/Allegro) close to SWING (MCCLIM), for AWT something like LTK was mostly enough.