[quchen]

The laziness-vs-non-strictness part pretty much nailed one problem beginners may have with the Haskell community.

On the other hand, I don't think your 99.something are a feature of humanity, they are the result of the last decades of mainstream programming development. It took me less than a year of on-and-off Haskell hobby fiddling to find functional and non-strict less awkward to think in than imperative and strict.

[wpietri]

I think his point is that from an adoption perspective, whether or not it's actually a genetic feature of humanity or merely might as well be is basically irrelevant. Either way, it's a giant hurdle from a practical perspective, especially a commercial one.