"Functional Programming is old. Ancient. Like right after FORTRAN. But it’s the future. Trust me, I’m named after the dude who knew about Jesus 700 years early. Seriously, it’s not going to take 700 years for FP to go mainstream. Some would argue that it already is. Python, Ruby, and others have adopted a number of FP features.

"Over the last couple days, I implemented a generic tower of compilers in Guile.So for example, you have Scheme as a source language, which defines a compiler to GHIL (a scheme-like intermediate language, simpler and without macros), which defines a compiler to GLIL (a lower-level language), which defines a compiler to object code (the byte sequence of VM code)..." -- see also

"We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.5. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. It provides a number of portability improvements, bug fixes, as well as several new features. You can find it here: ..."