All I'm saying is that if we plot languages on a spectrum, where one end corresponds to functional programming and the other to, say, imperative programming, th

All I'm saying is that if we plot languages on a spectrum, where one end corresponds to functional programming and the other to, say, imperative programming, then Haskell will be most closely to the FP end than any other practical language. Haskell embodies the most of the tenets of FP.