[ScottBurson]

It's somewhat hit-and-miss which submissions make the front page. A submission has only a few minutes to get several upvotes before it's pushed off the front "new" page, after which it's unlikely to recover.

Since you're here I'll add a little to my previous comment [0], which was very short because I didn't think many people would see it.

I don't advocate completely pure functional programming as one would do in Haskell, but I do think there are lots of places in most code where the functional style would be clearer and easier to understand and debug than the fully imperative style more common in Lisp. That's why I created FSet [1], a functional collections library. It has been my observation that having high-quality functional collections is often the most important missing piece to make it possible to write more code functionally.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15077088

[1] https://github.com/slburson/fset