interesting new JVM language announced - <http://e...

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interesting new JVM language announced - http://eta-lang.org/ . They claim to have the most expressive language.

We have empirically verified this by showing code samples of quicksort side-by-side in Java, Scala, Clojure, and Eta to ~100 programmers who had no experience with functional programming at an exhibition. Eta won, followed closely by Scala (people just love their curly braces!). One person liked Clojure because of "it looked like English" and no one liked Java. For this reason, we have posted it on the landing page. We have made no claims that it's the most performant nor that it's the fully correct quicksort (accounting for uniques) - the whole point was to highlight the expressiveness.