I would say it’s more “familiar”, not that it’s more “pragmatic”. Haskell is an entirely pragmatic language and is useful for solving very wide ranges of tasks.

I would say it’s more “familiar”, not that it’s more “pragmatic”. Haskell is an entirely pragmatic language and is useful for solving very wide ranges of tasks. It’s just not very familiar to most people, in part because it doesn’t plug into a familiar ecosystem, like CLR/Java languages do.