I'm gobsmacked that someone as smart as Lamport could make so lazy a criticism. Maybe he's criticising functional programming as it was decades ago when he las

I'm gobsmacked that someone as smart as Lamport could make so lazy a criticism. Maybe he's criticising functional programming as it was decades ago when he last looked at it. Modern functional programming is by no means (merely) about "functions". It's basically about composability and reuse.