> (over and over again) Eh. I'm not saying one way or the other that FP is good or bad, but the software industry is incredibly young and changes a lot. Even

> (over and over again) Eh. I'm not saying one way or the other that FP is good or bad, but the software industry is incredibly young and changes a lot. Even in a relatively short period - 10 years, let's say - things are pretty difference. 20 years, still a short time, and things are radically different. And on top of that, it is still the case that a lot of stuff takes a long time to get adopted. It's hard to build and popularize a programming language, regardless of how good or bad that language is, because they tend to lack interoperability with other languages if they're very different, which is usually a requirement if they want to be considered worth looking at. So I'd just as easily buy that people haven't used a lot of FP due to inertia, a lack of the right external inventives, etc, and not by any virtue of the paradigm.