Despite the (somewhat heated) discussion below, this article is actually quite pointless. Having good tools does not make you a good craftsman, I'm not sure th

Despite the (somewhat heated) discussion below, this article is actually quite pointless. Having good tools does not make you a good craftsman, I'm not sure this is contentious. I don't think that anyone would argue that (good tools => good craftsman) is valid. This isn't an argument against FP, just the statement that FP cannot transmute a bad programmer into a good one.