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by musicale 1557 days ago
1. It's all their feeble minds can understand. (This is the answer you were fishing for, yes?)

2. Too many MIT grads were brainwashed by SICP until MIT sensibly switched to Python in 2009. (Unfortunately they probably still secretly teach SICP somewhere.)

3. Lisp/Scheme readily implements "Maxwell's equations of software" which are believed to be important or useful for some reason.

/s

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I guess someone didn't see the /s or maybe OP was not amused.