I don't actually see a trend in the last 2-3 years of people getting more excited about Haskell, Clojure, Scala, and F#. Two years ago, people on forums like th

I don't actually see a trend in the last 2-3 years of people getting more excited about Haskell, Clojure, Scala, and F#. Two years ago, people on forums like this one were extremely excited about these languages. Outside of the forum scene, and into the industry, I see a lot more eye-rolling and knowing "here we go again" stares than excitement about these. I don't think we should lose sight of the fact that extreme enthusiasm about functional programming and Lisp taking over as the dominant paradigm in programming is almost as old as programming itself.