You could write that same comment about most of the languages you listed with only a bit of modification, really. All of them are better at something than the other ones are. None of them are "post-"anything.<p>I didn't say there was no innovation. I said the idea of "post-functional" doesn't seem to make any sense when we already have a perfectly good word. Merely having a slightly different emphasis on which the of the multiple paradigms are dominant in which places and being arguably a better selection for some purposes for some people is hardly worth a new word.<p>Besides, "post" functional rather implies that functional has had its day and is now played out. Modern functional (immutable variables, very strong type systems, etc.) hasn't even had its day; at best it's currently at the "hitting snooze on the alarm" phase of penetration. It's about twelve metaphorical hours early to be babbling about "post-functional".