There are plenty of programmers who learned languages like Haskell, Scheme, Eiffel etc. as their first languages who are now programming in Java, JavaScript, C#

There are plenty of programmers who learned languages like Haskell, Scheme, Eiffel etc. as their first languages who are now programming in Java, JavaScript, C# etc. There are just way more courses/universities that teach or taught Java/Python. Businesses settle on the lowest common denominator it seems.