Adam Skutt <ask...@gmail.com> writes: >> harder to use, and far, far less popular. > Alas, these two are probably true.
Haskell is kind of abstruse and has a notoriously steep learning curve, as it's mostly meant as a research testbed and as a playground for language geeks. ML/OCaml is by all accounts much easier, and I know of a couple of former Python projects that successfully migrated to OCaml once Python's warts and low performance got too annoying. Erlang (which is functional but untyped) has also been displacing Python in some settings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
