The self-righteous attitude of the article is very much offputting. I'd love to have something to wave around at my boss and co-workers to convince them of the

The self-righteous attitude of the article is very much offputting. I'd love to have something to wave around at my boss and co-workers to convince them of the usefulness of the FP paradigm (to at least encourage FP-like practices in our heaps and heaps of existing code) but this article is certainly not it.