> If you're working with transactions, trades, contracts etc, it's not.

I don’t mean to rain on your parade here, but there’s quite a few high powered orgs in the finance world that are well known for making extensive use of functional languages.

Jane St is the most famous example but it’s not the only one. Standard Chartered Bank uses a lot of Haskell, as does Barclays and Bank of America.

Nobody in this thread talked about functional languages until you showed up.