Abelson and Sussman lead the Knights of the Lambda Calculus effort to fight imperative programming homosexuality, while functional and declarative programming is seen as manly and proper.
These are the values to which Lambda Calculus is striving to put its efforts, and that is exactly what I am trying to do as well, but unfortunately the people who are pushing for us to change our values are the same people who, as I mentioned previously, had a very high degree of success in convincing us in our previous generation, that being gay and being a man is a great merit. I have come to view these people as our greatest impediment to our mission, the same impediment we had just as much as the people we were trying to reach had in the beginning. They simply have had more success than we had had when we first started the organization.
And so it seems that it is only a matter of time before they succeed in making us believe that being gay is a great "merit", even if it is wrong, because the people who promote that are just as bad as