As an FP Novice I find the resources the article links fantastic. I have to be honest that I am still not fully convinced that FP is not a sham! It looks like

As an FP Novice I find the resources the article links fantastic. I have to be honest that I am still not fully convinced that FP is not a sham! It looks like it makes many everyday code problems cognitively harder to come up with (harder to write code) so that the end result may be code that is simpler and apparently easier to read by other FP afficionados. I've taken several stabs at learning FP, and since I do a lot of JS (and use underscore), I will certainly work through these guides and look for ways that FP can potentially make me productive. The bar is high, because my imperative coding skillset is really strong. A lot of the time the code I write works the first time, and my code is "self debugging" via my own spin on robust programming (RP). I find a noxe mix of procedural code and OOP (not doing pure anything) works quite well, and being able to do things like mix-ins and passing functions around takes care of the few tricky bits.