If you really care about this subject, please read the article by Phil Wadler,
"Why no one uses functional languages",

  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/wadler/papers/sigplan-why/sigplan-why.ps.gz

and then take your discussion to comp.lang.functional, which is a better forum
for religious wars, with plenty of people who love to waste their time on this
stuff.

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