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Being functional in nature, Loop doesn't have any of the baggage of the host platform (Java)

I don't see much that's functional in this language, but this statement made me laugh. It looks like a lot of Java's baggage is still alive and well in this language, like exceptions (quite un-Haskell-like)

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> like exceptions (quite un-Haskell-like)

Haskell has exceptions [1].

[1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Exception

It has them, but I don't see them being used very often. More commonly just a Maybe will do. And really, monadic exceptions aren't like java exceptions. I would call them un-Haskell-like.

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