1 - yes my definition of the market is actually as simple as part of your reasoning -> "it has always seemed like the industry adjusts to what has low conceptua

1 - yes my definition of the market is actually as simple as part of your reasoning -> "it has always seemed like the industry adjusts to what has low conceptual overhead and high familiarity, good advertising and at least reasonable utility." I'm not sure if you meant it or not but that the perfect definition of a market and I mean it in that sense. As I've learned from pursuing my own startups...the market is not rational in any other sense. Ever. 2 = Because programming has always (in the mainstream sense) been FP platform + OOP middleware /frameworks + FP high level layer. Now, looking back, in most disciplines only 1 or 2 of these are used, but that just means in those situations the other layers are factored out. In enterprise AND startup development THIS is the formula that is ever present nowadays. 3- I've heard very good things about Erlang. I agree there are more paradigms. That is just a continuation of my first point interestingly enough. I'm pretty new to programming but the benefit of being an unbiased observer is being able to pick up on all these things. Thank you for the response.