I am converted.

I don't know when it happened, but I am a functional programmer. In my third year of uni I learned the lambda calculus, and it made sense. And then that summer I learned ML by writing a compiler in it. For a functional language.

Now I know that I don't know much about functional programming, but I do know that I no longer feel the need to return to the imperative world. I like my strong typesystems and the like. Sometimes libraries aren't the bulletproof things I would like, but the languages are there.

You never know, in a while I may be converted enough to be writing those useful libraries...