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Yes, not going away but not growing beyond the crippled, single-statement version it is now...

That disappointed me also, but the FP voice from the community is strong enough. Reduce lives on in functools and the functional package also adds additional functions, like compose. It's one of the packages I install first in a new Python installation. But true, Python will never grow into Haskell.

And R also has mmap, which is the the relevant package to reference rather than bigmemory in the original blog post?

Actually it says that Lush's predecessors were developed in 1987. Version 1 of Lush was released last decade.

But even if it was 1987, that's not older than Perl or Python.

So what isn't crap?

How is lush an old language? Looks like a language that was released last decade, but just never caught on.