[tormeh]

Well, functional programming has a lot of good ideas in it, it's just that people generally want the functional stuff in addition to, or at least only partially replacing, the imperative stuff. Laziness has gone out of style. Object orientation is going nowhere.

Functional programming is arriving right now, but not as Haskell.

As an aside, I think of Haskell as a sensei/guru saying, "Young grasshopper, if you want access to the glory that is my wisdom you will have to wash my dishes and scrape off my calluses for the next three years" to which my personal reply is "Hell no". It¨s unfriendly and it doesn't respect my time. Is there wisdom in Haskell? Probably, but I don't have the patience to deal with the bullshit.