LISP WINS AGAIN

John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket” (twitter.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220468

It needs to be said very firmly that LISP is not a functional language at all. My suspicion is that the success of Lisp set back the development of a properly functional style of programming by at least ten years.

-- David Turner