[matthewmacleod]

Evidently "mostly functional" programming does work, as does imperative programming, because we've got loads of successful software written using these paradigms.

I'm absolutely all behind the idea of looking at what the future of programming languages is going to be, and how we're going to cope with diverse, highly parallel systems, and how we can reduce errors, bugs and failures. But it will be a while until we figure that out.