These are definitely interesting papers, especially to someone like me who has a much stronger interest in programming languages than other (admittedly essential) topics like performance and similar, but this selection is a revealing demonstration that a lot of people who are heavy into functional programming tend to think that FP is the silver bullet of software engineering and that beyond it, there's nothing really interesting worth learning (especially not OOP or other non-FP methodologies).
These are definitely interesting papers, especially to someone like me who has a much stronger interest in programming languages than other (admittedly essential) topics like performance and similar, but this selection is a revealing demonstration that a lot of people who are heavy into functional programming tend to think that FP is the silver bullet of software engineering and that beyond it, there's nothing really interesting worth learning (especially not OOP or other non-FP methodologies).