Utterly outlandish? Please. The only proof we have of something being easier to learn, beside anecdotal evidence ("oh, I tried it and it was easy") is statisti

Utterly outlandish? Please. The only proof we have of something being easier to learn, beside anecdotal evidence ("oh, I tried it and it was easy") is statistical empirical evidence, i.e people actually learning it. Well, people are not actually learning those languages. They are learning the "other ones". (Where by people, I mean: a significant percentage of people, > 1%. I'm sure me, you and that "professional programmer who gives a shit about Haskell" do not a significant percentage make). Even in universities, students find functional languages difficult, and opt-out of those classes.