[zak_mc_kracken]

> I've seen startups killed by New Guy CTO Who Really Likes Java.

Of course, that's simple statistics. Java is the dominant language out there so it's going to be the most used language by startups that fail. That's a pretty silly argument.

And it works both ways: most of the startups that succeeded are based on Java (and other dominant languages). Hardly any of those based their product on Haskell. And again, I'm sure you can find a handful of those, but we're talking about statistical anomalies here.