Jesus, it was a joke. The major diff is that with imperative langs you are not using functions as much as with functional programming langs. Even though in C#

Jesus, it was a joke. The major diff is that with imperative langs you are not using functions as much as with functional programming langs. Even though in C# and other langs functional patterns becomes more and more common. Which is also my main criticism against functional programming langs. Functional programming is just a design pattern among others. Lispians will disagree. During the last 25 years I heard this garbage over and over that functional programming will take over. I worked at companies that invested heavily in some of the functional programming langs (like F#). All of them have been heavily crippled by it. If functional programming was so great it would have conquered the world by now. It has been around 4-5 times longer than smartphones. It is simply garbage. Practice and theory are two different beasts.