Comment by rafaelvasco

I feel it's because functional programming is not a general application methodology. It excels at several idioms that we use as programmers but I feel it's something more specialized and niche then OO programming. I personally use OO as a base and iterate from there, using Functional idioms where is applicable. Some classes of programs can be described in its entirety in functional terms, but they're a small portion compared to the whole. Everything can be expressed in OO idiom, even if it's not the optimum way; I don't know if the same can be said of Functional. Would like to know more;