I totally agree with you. Nobody is obliged to satisfy all audiences. Just to make it explicit; I'm not suggesting Javascript for communicating this type of po

I totally agree with you. Nobody is obliged to satisfy all audiences. Just to make it explicit; I'm not suggesting Javascript for communicating this type of posts. Without strong typing, this kind of refactoring will immediately become a spaghetti of screaming ducks. Defunctionalisation is a not-so-rare pattern to encounter and I humbly think choosing a non C-like language to explain it is a waste of opportunity to introduce it to people who can benefit it most (i.e network programmers, game scripting tools programmers, distributed systems programmers etc).