Recently (not really actually, 2 weeks had passed already) I've attended FPCONF conference - the first functional programming conference in Russia. Below I want to note my impressions on this event. About me personally - I have 8 years of hands-on programming experience, primarily in C#, a little bit of Scala and Haskell. I can't call myself truely and deeply functional person because of the hard object-oriented legacy that lies on my shoulders :) However, I believe that fusion of the OOP and FP is a near future (or even a present, if we take a look at Scala) of programming languages. The conference itself wasn't quite big - 17 speakers and around 200 attendees. As for the languages - the vast majority of topics were related to Haskell, Scala and Clojure. Also there were topics on Erlang and even F# (about the evolution of Type Providers ). I guess the most memorable presentation was a keynote from Edward Kmett (Chairman of the Haskell Core Libraries Committee ). As