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What are you talking about? Most of the startups discussed on this forum and/or funded by YC are using some subset of functional programming.
by starkfist 16y ago
What are you talking about? Most of the startups discussed on this forum and/or funded by YC are using some subset of functional programming.
- WilliamLP 16y agoWe're all (almost) using some subset of functional programming. (Even working in something like PHP.) We're also almost all not using Lisp, Haskell or even Scala. Lisp had brilliant ideas that became mainstream and widespread; that is not contestable.
- starkfist 16y agoso what's the problem?
- KirinDave 16y agoThere are still many more brilliant and powerful ideas from Common Lisp that have not been adopted, despite being demonstrably superior. Hopefully everyone else can catch up so your pronouncement of Lisp's death can be made true. Want an example? Condition handlers and restarts; no one else does this as well as Common Lisp did in the early 90's.