More of this. This endless debate about what is better - functional or OO is leading nowhere. The OO side is winning, since the majority of the industry is using it. The way to tear down the OO "hype", is by replacing things used in the industry with better alternatives written in a functional language.

Git (C) has eaten up both Darcs (Haskell) and Mercurial (Python), even though Python and Haskell are "clearly" superior languages, according to some.

Git's success has probably little to do with its implementation language.

Exactly! Welcome to professional software development.