Well, the advanced languages often compile through low level languages like C anyhow, to get the performance they have. In terms of productivity, I remember run

Well, the advanced languages often compile through low level languages like C anyhow, to get the performance they have. In terms of productivity, I remember running into this comparison including Haskell and C++ from '94. http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/haugwarb/Programming/Haskell/haskell_vs_ada_vs_cpp_vs_awk_vs_etc.pdf http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/haugwarb/Programming/Haskell/has... I'm also curious as to why functional programming hasn't been more successful. I think that, whilst such languages are especially elegant for some forms of control flow, they require more mental contortions than mixed-paradigm languages. Since this makes them less comfortable, they're less popular still.