The Haskell haters' fallacies

1. Haskell is purely functional.
No.

2. Static typing sucks.
No.

3. Haskell is hard to learn.
Go scrub another toilet you mental midget.

4. You go scrub another toilet you mental midget!
Ergo you're wrong, bitch.

ease of abstraction
This part actually confuses me.  I was always under the assumption that "abstraction" is a process that is established by the developer, not the language (unless it really is so bad that calling it a "language" is being generous).  Yes, the code itself is already an abstraction of something and often creates the ruleset for abstraction (of code), but I have yet to run into a situation where preparing abstraction is difficult for reasons of "unworkable language."

More often, I have to tell people I work with to hold back and not turn something simple into an unnecessary exercise.