I really enjoyed the humor in this article. It makes it accessible enough that I will probably send it to a few if my newbie-programmer friends. After discover

I really enjoyed the humor in this article. It makes it accessible enough that I will probably send it to a few if my newbie-programmer friends. After discovering functional programming myself I figure everyone who doesn't love it must not know what is is. It's the best thing since 640k of ram, after all. But there are people who have heard of it, maybe tried it, and just gone right back to their Java and forgetting that the strategy pattern even exists. After talking with some programmers at work I find that they think it isn't necessary and, more than that, isn't approachable. I personally love the mathematic approach. It is more natural for me after my time in math and physics. Most people don't like math, and we need more articles explaining how FP simplifies programming they are already doing. I liked that this introduction was very approachable in that respect.