The best programmers have deep understandings of both the physical and theoretical theories of computation. Most programmers have a better understanding of the

The best programmers have deep understandings of both the physical and theoretical theories of computation. Most programmers have a better understanding of the physical: Processors, memory, networking, operating systems. Functional programming is the super power that reconceptualizes the endless tape wiggling of the Turing machine into a coherent, flowing calculus.