Fair enough. When viewed from a use-case perspective, I suppose you could claim that Ruby and Python are similar to C family languages. I actually have started

Fair enough. When viewed from a use-case perspective, I suppose you could claim that Ruby and Python are similar to C family languages. I actually have started exploring Haskell recently, and clearly functional programming languages require a different thought process than imperative languages. I'd still assert, however, that the difference in thought process is a growth in the theory of programming, or what I called the "0%". That's why many programmers find it hard to learn functional languages - it requires a great deal of conceptual learning. It has very little to do with the syntax.