> admit that functional programming is the wrong paradigm for some types of problems. Absolutely. Some problems are just so much simpler in an imperative style

> admit that functional programming is the wrong paradigm for some types of problems. Absolutely. Some problems are just so much simpler in an imperative style that it's worth the lack of confidence you get with the functional solution in its correctness and robustness. That's why I love languages that have fairly powerful functional features but have an imperative escape hatch. I think more and more languages are becoming that. Rust does it very well, but the lisps, probably Scala, and a few others I'm not thinking of may be better, don't have much experience with those though.