> It is really a pity that so many people can't or don't want to acknowledge the nature of engineering work, and hold imperfections against the creators, or the concepts they try to implement.

This would be a great stretch if it was meant to be a reply rather than a generic statement. To me the increasing irrelevance of a term "functional" is in fact the biggest success of the FP: it is entering the realm shared by, say, the term "structural programming" which is so universal that it became meaningless. It is an amazing feat given that no other terms for programming paradigms ever have been close this much!

Given any standard about the FP, there is a definite disparity between languages that should be called functional and languages that are actually called functional. I think the increasing universality of functional paradigm explains this, and kibwen is merely proposing another term describing the latter.