Two years ago, I stood on my soapbox and yelled. I told the FP community that their languages were bad, and that they should feel bad. It was a post full of vitriol and frustration, but also a little bit of truth. I believed then (and still do) that functional languages are a poor solution if what you're looking for is a way to get B grade programmers to build scalable, concurrent systems. After trying to learn Erlang, Haskell, and then Scala, I couldn't see how using those languages was easier that just using separate processes, stitched together with message passing infrastructure, to build systems at scale. And with these thoughts running through my head, I vomited on the Internet. Then Hacker News picked it up.