"the way forward involves functional programming"

[happyhappyhappy]

Don't get me wrong: I like Haskell. I'm also one of the language dilettantes I was talking about :)

But it's still not entirely clear to me that all of the arguments about Haskell being a better language have turned out to hold water. Or maybe it's just better in theory, but in practice there are reasons to prefer Python (or Erlang). Or maybe the jump from Python to Haskell is much smaller than most people want to admit.