I can't help feeling that there is some sort of operating system uncertainty principle involved in purity vs practicality. The more you optimise for one, the mo

I can't help feeling that there is some sort of operating system uncertainty principle involved in purity vs practicality. The more you optimise for one, the more you lose the other. A more contemporary version of that rant would no doubt be extolling the more FP oriented OS instead of OO though. Written by someone who drifted off while reading Lisp books too many times. They are in for a let down when they find stuff was "hacked together in Perl" instead.