Amen to that.  People who haven't really given a fair look at functional langauges (Haskell in particular) seem to have a very poor conception of them.  Again, this seems to especially be a problem with Haskell (i.e., the whole "monads are hard" thing)... If this is where people are getting their information from, it would definitely behoove the Haskell community to update its image to further Haskell and FP in general :)