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Re:Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] by lispm on Friday December 09, 2016 @04:44PM (#13142118)
The problem: this was long ago on an OS written largely in Lisp.

On a current typical OS (Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, ...) the chance of ever seeing a Lisp-based device driver in action is near zero.

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Re:Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] by pjmlp on Friday December 09, 2016 @05:17PM (#13142356)
It isn't because those ideas failed to get mass adoption that we should ignore them.
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Re:Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] by willtim on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:51AM (#13144918)
I don't think anyone is intentionally ignoring them, just accepting the present reality of hardware designed for C. When Intel finally start selling reduceron hardware graph reduction for my Haskell, I'll be the first in line.
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