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> Maybe that just says something about my intelligence, or maybe the functional camp hasn't yet figured out how to write large programs in a readable way.

You make it sound like we've figured out how to write imperative large programs in a readable way.

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Well, it's not too bad. I work at Google and spend a significant part of every workday reading other people's code, written in imperative/OO languages. That's not too difficult, if the code uses few abstractions and if you have good tools for reading it, like cross-referencing, version control history and code review history. But the "few abstractions" part is actually important, I can't imagine reading typical Haskell code at the same speed. When you're tracking down a bug or trying to implement a feature that touches several projects, you really need to read fast.

It really comes down to who's code you are reading.

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