Yep. As a current functional-language guy, this merely confirms my suspicion that those crazy functional people were onto something. As it turns out, since the

Yep. As a current functional-language guy, this merely confirms my suspicion that those crazy functional people were onto something. As it turns out, since the human mind is the real limitation here, anything that stops runaway complexity ("hiding" functionality behind "magic" is actually worse because you're just moving the complexity "away from your mental model" where it can fester and grow out of sight, even if what you see looks "simpler") results in fewer bugs, and more-debuggable bugs.