I think there's a lot of truth in this. I worked for a startup that uses a functional language. Without the flexibility that gave us to adjust our architecture

I think there's a lot of truth in this. I worked for a startup that uses a functional language. Without the flexibility that gave us to adjust our architecture at various points along a sometimes torturous evolution, I don't think we would have survived to a successful exit. I firmly believe that had we been in a more "traditional" environment we'd be dead and that would have been that.