I am skeptical, not because I'm resistant to change, but because it is obvious to me that doing FP right is (and will be) very hard.
Doing FP right is hard, but not for everyone. Library writers have the hardest job because FP (especially pure, statically typed FP) forces you to plan ahead of time instead of cobbling things together. The reward of doing this is the ability to make very robust, stable, easy-to-use domain-specific languages that make it hard even for novice programmers to screw up.
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I am skeptical, not because I'm resistant to change, but because it is obvious to me that doing FP right is (and will be) very hard.
Doing FP right is hard, but not for everyone. Library writers have the hardest job because FP (especially pure, statically typed FP) forces you to plan ahead of time instead of cobbling things together. The reward of doing this is the ability to make very robust, stable, easy-to-use domain-specific languages that make it hard even for novice programmers to screw up.