Sadly I sense something amuck against the functional paradigm as well. Paul Graham wrote back in 2001 that Lisp was a secret weapon for building a startup due

Sadly I sense something amuck against the functional paradigm as well. Paul Graham wrote back in 2001 that Lisp was a secret weapon for building a startup due to the developer productivity gains. https://paulgraham.com/avg.html https://paulgraham.com/avg.html As a corollary, the more lisp-like JavaScript is, the more it reduces barriers to entry for launching a tech company, promoting more software engineers into potential new competitors. Could it be that Java and Python are taught in universities because some members of the industry prefer making it more cumbersome for new grads to launch a company? Having significant barriers to entry is business strategy 101.