>> 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.