I want to heart this <3 and there's also some interesting stuff in Clojure, F#, even Immutable.js with higher-order methods. What I mainly object to is functio

I want to heart this <3 and there's also some interesting stuff in Clojure, F#, even Immutable.js with higher-order methods. What I mainly object to is functional languages like Haskell that have steep learning curves but also impure functionality that puts the onus on users to not shoot themselves in the foot. I feel that they miss the point in some fundamental way that's hard to quantify. The simplest example of that might be that a spreadsheet is equivalent to functional programming, but one is readable and one is not. A bridge between them hasn't been successfully built yet, but I'd sure love to try.