I think times have changed though. Functional languages just weren't big back then the way they are now. Back in those days Haskell was sloooooooow. There's 17

I think times have changed though. Functional languages just weren't big back then the way they are now. Back in those days Haskell was sloooooooow. There's 17 years of runtime and compiler optimisation, not to mention MUCH faster hardware, that's been developed in between. It's now totally realistic to use the expressive power of functional languages on real-world workloads in a way that it mostly wasn't back in Y2K.