> The experience of Guido, and it's one that I share, is that too much functional tooling drives a style that favors expressive writing at the expense of ease o

> The experience of Guido, and it's one that I share, is that too much functional tooling drives a style that favors expressive writing at the expense of ease of reading. This is absolutely dead on accurate. As a Clojure developer, using one of the most expressive -- dare I say, artistic -- programming languages ever created, I can say that I am totally in the zone writing code which is elegant and terse and really packs a punch, does clever things.... and then just a few days later, it is very hard for my own brain to parse my own code and figure out what it does. For each line of code you write once, it will be read dozens of times by you or others. Code is for reading. Languages that get this right make things a lot easier for everyone.