[codygman]

"real interactions"? It is disingenuous to imply that all Haskell programmers do is see type errors while Python and Ruby programmers have 'real interactions'.

For instance, today I wrote tons of stuff in the IO Monad and had what you call 'real interactions'.

Also, more time spent in the debugger doesn't necessarily mean a faster working program. The psychology of it is more rewarding, but there's nothing necessarily more "real" about it.