I can understand the pushback against FP, but it doesn't follow that if FP is a poor choice, then the only realistic alternative is OOP. I do a lot of Python s

I can understand the pushback against FP, but it doesn't follow that if FP is a poor choice, then the only realistic alternative is OOP. I do a lot of Python stuff - much of it is not functional programming. And very little of it is OOP. The programming world doesn't consist of just these.