Which is why I suggested we not use terrible analogies as though we are incapable of speaking about our profession directly. My point was that if you insist on

Which is why I suggested we not use terrible analogies as though we are incapable of speaking about our profession directly. My point was that if you insist on using a bad analogy, it has to at least parallel the situation you are analogizing. Pretending "everything but haskell" is a sharp knife and using haskell is some unspecified thing that isn't a sharp knife is just plain ridiculous. General purpose programming languages are all general purpose programming languages, you can't just arbitrarily split one off because you don't like it.