Links
Open Quark
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game (CAL benchmarks)
Robert Tolksdorf’s Languages for the JVM page
Open Quark historical announcements (blog)
3rd Party Open Quark Related
Nik Shaylor’s Game in CAL page (Asteroids, Chess, Cubes...)
Functional Languages
Haskell (one of the main influencers of CAL)
Clean (another lazy functional language)
Functional Programming
The wikipedia article on functional programming
John Hughes’ classic paper Why Functional Programming Matters
John Hughes’ list of online functional programming tutorials
The Lambda Complex (what are functional languages and why do they matter)
Philip Wadler’s Guide to Functional Programming on the Web