And they were pushing scheme as the future of everything. "We need a lambda key on the keyboard, maybe you people at HP can help us with that." Which wasn't ent

And they were pushing scheme as the future of everything. "We need a lambda key on the keyboard, maybe you people at HP can help us with that." Which wasn't entirely in jest. I'm pretty sure Abelson and Sussman would have had an honest, will reasoned and nuanced answer as to why lisp had not replaced fortran and whether it will or even should. Those guys didn't go for rank boosterism. Why no lisp? People didn't /own/ computers they could do what they liked with. You needed permission. Ask bill gates about that, he'll tell you... How could you hire lisp hackers? Not an issue for Paul. Done. There are tens of thousands of us who learnt Haskell (and then maybe wrote a monad tutorial). How many applications? This tells us something. What? The author has a theory. The author has written a tutorial. Show me the application!