You brought Haskell into the debate (along with many other topics) and I didn't get the impression it was in a positive light, hence my reply. There isn't real

You brought Haskell into the debate (along with many other topics) and I didn't get the impression it was in a positive light, hence my reply. There isn't really anything more to debate. Your position appears to be that such details are "uninteresting", even for an aspiring high-level language like Python, because there are harder problems to solve. I suspect many academics would disagree, which I infer from their language designs.