Just to review, this stream of comments leads us to the invention of a new unit, the "Hypothetical Paul Graham" or HPG, which represents the amount of BS requir

Just to review, this stream of comments leads us to the invention of a new unit, the "Hypothetical Paul Graham" or HPG, which represents the amount of BS required to defend poor coding practice. Absolute reliance on OO even in non-real systems is a 5 HPG proposition, as it would apparently require five hypothetical Paul Grahams before the use of closures to simulate objects became too complex. A language that does not include functional abstraction is at least a 10 HPG proposition. We would need to posit at least ten hypothetical Paul Grahams before the dangerous ability to simply define one's own functions (even redefine system functions, oh my!) and pass them around would become dangerously confusing. This raises the question: is there a theoretical limit of HPGs? How many would be required before we could justify just writing machine instructions?