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by chaoky 4020 days ago
Scheme is not "fully functional". Neither is Common Lisp. No one will say they are mostly imperative either. But they work; before AI winter there were many machines and OS's built on top of them and their immediate predecessors.

If this author's definition of "does not work" means that they can't be used to build operating systems or high level AI programs well...