yeah, I don't think that's true. Neither Clojure nor Haskell seem to have any problems finding adherents, nor does the functional paradigm itself seem to be in

yeah, I don't think that's true. Neither Clojure nor Haskell seem to have any problems finding adherents, nor does the functional paradigm itself seem to be in danger of... anything. Your personal distaste for parens isn't much evidence to support the idea that they are antithetical to the growth of functional programming, nor my own distaste for Haskell evidence of the same.