Cory Doctorow's latest talk 'The Coming War on General Purpose Computing' really puts things in perspective about life in the 21st century. This got me thinking more about functional programming languages and how they are related to the intentional limitation/crippling of turing machines by industry and government.What if Stallman is right about the intentional efforts to limit freedom of information ? What if it's even worse than we all think it is ?In relation to functional languages : might industry and academia intentionally not want them to become popular ? At least not yet ?Might powerfu...