>Why would anyone say that? Most people have not had any exposure to functional programming languages or functional programming in general. When they say "any

>Why would anyone say that? Most people have not had any exposure to functional programming languages or functional programming in general. When they say "any other language" they mean, any other language that they have used or know anything about I guess. This is one of those cases where we fail to realize that other people's reality is totally different than ours. Everyone does this all of the time, not just you specifically to be clear, this is a limitation in our brains.