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So "outside" now means "inside"? Lisp is reviled because it doesn't play nicely with "modern" (read: broken-by-design) technologies like MS-Windows and the WWW stack. Any attempt to make the language more cube-farm-friendly really ought to be called a boxing-in, rather than the opposite.

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Calling an FFI tutorial an "attempt to make the language more cube-farm-friendly" is needlessly incendiary. The fact is, there are lots of C wheels out there that don't need reinventing, and calling them from a REPL is useful and mischievous and fun.

From what I've gleaned from the direction of many recent discussions on haskell-cafe, the good FFI support is a huge reason that Haskell is starting to fail to avoid success.

I still love that motto.

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