<troll>Yeah, but it's a really good analogy. Here is this "nice" system that makes you feel warm and fuzzy, and underneath is implemented using imperative progr

<troll>Yeah, but it's a really good analogy. Here is this "nice" system that makes you feel warm and fuzzy, and underneath is implemented using imperative programming, whose purpose is to waste a huge amount of your spare time, for fun. Sounds exactly like functional languages to me!</troll>