Thanks for the feedback! It's not that functional programs have imperative elements or not. That's kind of besides the point. The point is that putting functi

Thanks for the feedback! It's not that functional programs have imperative elements or not. That's kind of besides the point. The point is that putting functional components into workflows that deal with arbitrarily mutable data is reducing the potential we have with the functional model. The article is simply an open-ended invitation for a discussion on how to do this (and it spark a little bit of that conversation) with some of the proposed options on the same blog.