This is the first time I’ve seen JavaScript not being described as a functional language :) As for your more general point: it’s easy to go from functional ->

This is the first time I’ve seen JavaScript not being described as a functional language :) As for your more general point: it’s easy to go from functional -> imperative. It’s a lot harder to do the same thing in reverse. Source: anyone who learned LOGO before BASIC in the 1980s.