pffft, real computer scientists are mathematicians.
Won't argue with you there. Guess it's a good thing I'm really a software engineer

Haskell has a empesis on what you acutally want(Expressions), rather than how do it(Lists of statements) and a lot less state. If haskell kicked off there would be a lot less bugs in code.
Sure, fewer bugs and shorter code in the end but actually writing the program to begin with is where the headache begins. The way I try to solve problems is by breaking them down into a series of smaller sub-problems and Haskell (maybe just functional programming in general) does not seem compatible with this way of thinking. If Haskell kicked off, my productivity would go right through the floor.