We wouldn't have need such barbaric things in a lisp world. :p

Personally I think/hope they would have earlier discoveries / more broad usage of the deterministic systems like nix etc, which are built upon functional principles of immutability etc.

Maybe the world would be guix/Hurd!

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blubber 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Common lisp isn't functional in that sense.

	▲	tyromaniac an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sure the language might not be immutable but the lisp machine alt universe's "overton window" would I imagine be more functional then today's (JVM? maybe that's the qnalog?) reality.

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dismalaf 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Common Lisp is pretty much the opposite of what people think of as functional nowadays. You're constantly changing the image and everything is mutable.

	▲	pfdietz an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Image saving isn't something that's done very often, in practice.
	▲	tyromaniac an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I would presume there was a lot of mixing of imperative/functional in the 80s where this alt universe starts. I think the same type of world in which lisp machines would have become king would also be similar

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neutronicus 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Personally I think/hope they would have earlier discoveries / more broad usage of the deterministic systems like nix etc, which are built upon functional principles of immutability etc.

Yeah, that, uh, doesn't sound like Lisp