To be fair, though, not even functional programming is truly "stateless." The program has a state as it's actually executing a function. It's still remembering

To be fair, though, not even functional programming is truly "stateless." The program has a state as it's actually executing a function. It's still remembering the functions arguments, etc. It's just that the state is extremely ephemeral, and is lost by the time the function returns. I think this is using the word "stateless" in the same way, only over a slightly longer timescale.