> To what degree do you use Lisp as an FP language? As a pure FP language?
It depends on what I'm doing, but I generally write in an OO style more than a functional style. Real problems have state.
> If you dislike new languages
I want to be clear that this is just a general observation. I don't dislike new things because they are new, I tend to dislike them because they are generally bad. But they are not all bad. Clojure is cool. WebASM is very cool. The work that has been done on Javascript compilers is nothing short of miraculous (even though the language itself still sucks).
> I bet XML drives you straight up the wall
Kind of, but not really. Yes, I dislike XML because it is nothing but S-expressions with a more complicated syntax. But it doesn't drive me up a wall because when I need to deal with XML I just parse it into S-exprs, do what I need to do, and render the results back into XML.
