When I was being exposed to functional programming I absolutely loved it. However, when challenged with rewriting non-functional in a functional manner, all hel

When I was being exposed to functional programming I absolutely loved it. However, when challenged with rewriting non-functional in a functional manner, all hell broke loose. It's not a complete rewrite, it's a completely different mind set. Almost as it's simpler to just start fresh with the problem at hand. I get the same feeling with Go, if you try to copy what you've done in other languages you will be enraged. If you embrace the new mind set, it's nice. Rust is nice, but it's a fresh breath of air to not have a weird syntax to work with but proper words. But maybe I've been too far away from C for too long of a period.