>I now constantly think about how to avoid side effects, how to minimize mutability, how to ensure my code flow is readable and not cluttered by irrelevancies (

>I now constantly think about how to avoid side effects, how to minimize mutability, how to ensure my code flow is readable and not cluttered by irrelevancies (notice how the author keeps bringing up "noise"?) Sure, but you would get that from pretty much any FP language. This article seems to be making claims for F# in particular.