Functional languages have been around a long time; they predate "object oriented" languages. I was never much of a fan of "object oriented", so if "functional languages" take the spotlight from OO, then I'm all for it!

But obviously there are some new twists to this old idea going on. Functional languages were always really cool, but this is the first I've heard of them being used for web development. Of course, the last time I was using functional languages, HTML didn't even exist...so what do I know?