I follow your blog. I'm a month from 40 and agree. After several years working mostly in Clojure, Scala, and F#, I am finding myself most productive in tradit

I follow your blog. I'm a month from 40 and agree. After several years working mostly in Clojure, Scala, and F#, I am finding myself most productive in traditional languages even though they're less interesting. And am finding projects more interesting than implementations, which is probably the way it should be. I'm finding now that OOP is actually a pretty good model for most things. Loops and mutation reflect reality: you do a task N times and write down each result; you don't take the first N results from an infinite seq of tasks. IoC is useful. In addition having a much larger set of things to copy/paste from github/stackoverflow is nice. That said, most (all?) of my paid work is pretty banal, nothing that's really begging for functional style. And for whatever reason I've never had much success with REPLs. Getting them updated correctly with the code and dependency changes, typing in what I want to test, then running it always seems to take me longer than just executing the app and testing changes directly.