Even if it’s true (I don’t claim it is) because FP’s brick-wall learning curve is a huge filter - given that FP isn’t widely used in SE (and you don’t need to l

Even if it’s true (I don’t claim it is) because FP’s brick-wall learning curve is a huge filter - given that FP isn’t widely used in SE (and you don’t need to learn FP to make lots of money doing SE) - the people spending time to learn FP will be doing it for esoteric-appeal or intellectual curiosity - which can be argued is a better indicator of general intelligence - the same way that people who know and write OCaml, COBOL, Ada and Erlang today are probably very smart.