Agreed. I purged a bunch of stuff and still feel like I left too much in.

A couple of bonus facts for you:

- they've got an effects tracking system where you can have the compiler track (and whistleblow!) which functions are pure or not

- their multi-phase compiler allows you to read in source code at build time (from files or external programs!)

- their macro system is typesafe as it operates at the AST level

- the guy who created it will always tell you how he feels

- again with their macro system... there are FP libs, pattern matching libs, and OO libs that can "literally" transform the language to fit your preference

- and one more just for you: they don't support tail call optimization (ducks)