I think where these comparisons go wrong is tooling. I don't give a rodent's behind how nifty your new language is unless you've got excellent tooling, particu

I think where these comparisons go wrong is tooling. I don't give a rodent's behind how nifty your new language is unless you've got excellent tooling, particularly, an easy to use step through debugger (and no, you still need a debugger when functional programming). The second I think I'm doing printf() debugging I'm out. Note, I'm only referring to actually getting work done here - academically, or if you're just dinking around, then it's all good.