Name: Anonymous 2017-01-17 13:42
Lisp is the goal, C is the path
C was pretty much the only systems language that was worth using for many decades.That's wrong. C was (and still is) one of the lowest quality systems languages. That's why it was called portable assembly. Most programming languages were more portable than C. Lisp and FP helped make C popular because it was used for their runtimes and interpreters.