getting the impression that some kinds of programming have a bad rep because they're twice or thrice as hard to read (time per character) but wind up taking less than a tenth of as much space. higher initial apparent cognitive energy makes it look "harder" even tho' it's not?
Functional has a bad rep? All the cool kids are doing it. There is a fair amount of grousing, grumbling and belly aching about Haskell in particular, though.
