Yeah, this is why I'd bet a lot on Go's success. The nice thing is that once you get "C with lambdas" most of the FP abstractions can be brought in. ...what "i

Yeah, this is why I'd bet a lot on Go's success. The nice thing is that once you get "C with lambdas" most of the FP abstractions can be brought in. ...what "industry" doesn't like is "deep thinking" in general and anything else that can make programmers less replaceable and interchangeable. The fun thing will be when they'll realize that this is exactly what FP can bring :) ...less side-effects means less time for a programmer to "load a codebase-part into his working memory" and start working productively on a new project he's never seen before. And as a programmer too I tend to like languages that make me replaceable: it's always fun to be able to jump from one project to another and be able to quickly "load it in your mind". Paradoxically, both "retarded OOP" languages like Java, "retarded dynamic" languages like Javascript and "fundamentalist" languages like Haskell give you this. Anything in between, like Ruby or Lisp, forces you to first to load someone else's pseudo-DSL into your mind before being able to start doing productive work on a new project. Dunno about "hybrids" like Scala though... maybe they are a solution, maybe not. EDIT: 'more' -> 'less' in first sentence, sorry... dunno who upvoted before the edit as the message gets kind of reversed :)