I use FP everyday, but I'm not an academic and I couldn't tell you what a monad is. But I do know about closures, lambdas, filter, map, reduce, arity and other

I use FP everyday, but I'm not an academic and I couldn't tell you what a monad is. But I do know about closures, lambdas, filter, map, reduce, arity and other basic concepts. I prefer to write functions instead of classes (JS/TS). So I'm not a wizard, but FP is helpful even at an elementary level