This more or less hits the point. I hear from functional programmers that fp is superior and that the only reason people are not as productive with it is becaus

This more or less hits the point. I hear from functional programmers that fp is superior and that the only reason people are not as productive with it is because they're stupid. But in the real world, fp languages just don't seem to work out very well, not in companies I read about, not in classes I've taken. They only seen to work well in Fibonacci examples. (And functional features in other languages are great though) I wanted to like fp because all the cool kids do. But I need to see results or some evidence that the drawbacks of fp can be overcome and functional programmers give me nothing but "if you don't get it, your stupid"