What the hell is Functional Paradise?

<p> I was first exposed to the Emacs command set some time in 1990, while I was a sophomore in college; I owned an Atari ST, and stumbled across a port of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS">Conroy&#39;s uEmacs</a> for TOS. It was a good little editor—capable and easy to use. In fact, as I was learning C at the time, I spent some time converting the source to ANSI C as an exercise.</p> <p> I have used and even become pretty facile with a couple of other editors—I spent a lot of my last couple of years of college using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal">Turbo Pascal</a>, whose embedded editor used a command set derived from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar">WordStar</a>, and in my first job out of college I spent a lot of time writing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_(programming_language)">Clipper</a> code using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)">Brief</a>—but I&#39;ve always had Emacs hovering in the background.</p>