> Imagine that the requirements are that your program does A, B, C, D and E, in that order. I find that every year I write software, the less my software looks

> Imagine that the requirements are that your program does A, B, C, D and E, in that order. I find that every year I write software, the less my software looks like "do step A, then B, then ...". It's always becoming more functional and declarative. I'm not sure there's any function in my entire program that has to do 5 high-level calls in order like that. Without hearing what A/B/C/D/E actually are, this sounds almost straw-man-ish, or perhaps architecture-astronaut-ish.