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Re:Ask HN: Why is functional programming not more popular? by fulafel on Thursday November 07, 2019 @10:31PM (#21479766)
"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." - Guy Steele, Java spec co-author
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