[imok20]

As additional anecdotal evidence, this is true for me, though I'm still using Python for my next project simply because it's a proven language with proven libraries.

But I'm certainly ready and interested in moving toward a more functional language -- I've always been interested in the Lisps, and have always tended to write code in the functional style, where possible (even though my first language was Java...)

[andrewcooke]

this is true for me ... though I'm still using Python for my next project

i think you must mean "false", then.

[dsil]

No, he said he's using python, so it's False

[andrewcooke]

it's taken me a day to "get" that - i'd been thinking it was a confused comment rather than a (questionable quality!) joke... have a vote back to 1 since i suspect you've been downvoted by others as confused as me.

[mattmanser]

I think the point is anecdotal is not evidence and blog posts are all too often lacking in anything but.

Then again he's programming in a hot bed of programmers in that well known programming mecca of Hamilton, New Zealand. Oh, wait...