I think that has more to do with syntax and the overdependence on rote memorization that it requires, and less to do with the actual concepts themselves. Lots o

I think that has more to do with syntax and the overdependence on rote memorization that it requires, and less to do with the actual concepts themselves. Lots of things are silly in Haskell-land, but that's mostly because it's made to be elegant or math-like, if I've understood it correctly. That said, multiparadigmatic programming is awesome, we just have to find some way to give as much information to the compiler in imperative instructions as we do in functional. This means that imperative programming has to be tightened up quite a bit, but I don't think it would be very drastic, really.