So everybody doesn't have to go watch it, here is a shortened version of
what Steele said in the video:
Although Fortress is originally designed as an object-oriented framework in
which to build an array-style scientific programming language, [...] as we've
experimented with it and tried to get the parallelism going we found ourselves
pushed more and more in the direction of using immutable data structures and a
functional style of programming. [...] If I'd known seven years ago what I know
now, I would have started with Haskell and pushed it a tenth of the way toward
Fortran instead of starting with Fortran and pushing it nine tenths of the way
toward Haskell.
I think I might use this in some slides soon. :) Thanks for pointing it out!
- Jake
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