Haskell (and Lisp) will always be 'new'. Especially going by HN posts which seem to think that Haskell is some brand new language created last week to solve the problem of 'side effects' and in a few months time everyone will be using it.
Built by a company with the time, money, and motivation to train new hires on an esoteric language that happens to be specifically designed for their unique application.
(Incidentally, my mobile phone calls are quite rare. Voice communication sucks. If your intent was to show that Erlang is important to me, you chose a poor example.)
