If the author had been a Lisp hacker, the conclusion of this amusing polemic would have ended with the announcement of a project to create the One True Dialect.

If the author had been a Lisp hacker, the conclusion of this amusing polemic would have ended with the announcement of a project to create the One True Dialect. I don't see why he doesn't, though based on others' comments, it's apparently because he is a troll. I've always been charmed by Smalltalk, though having spent years in 90% functional programming land (mostly Scheme and Clojure), I