I admit I am vaguely curious about lots of things. That Racklog in particular seems interesting.

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"As Rich Hickey says, "simple" and "easy" are distinct concepts. An easy implementation doesn't necessarily lead to a simple result."

I am aware. But until I either A) find a better system that I can actually understand and implement or B) find some severe flaw with my system, I'll stick with my system.

In addition, because of immutable environments, variable bindings are strictly from top-to-bottom. So enforcing that same kind of strict left-to-right ordering is more consistent and I think intuitive for the programmer. So I would say it is both easy and simple.

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"In his "Simple Made Easy" talk, he specifically considered 'fold more complex than 'reduce due to the way it imposed a left-to-right or right-to-left ordering that wasn't necessarily part of the programmer's intent."

Well, okay, but sometimes you really do want that different ordering.

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"Ironically, he also dissed type systems. :)"