Regardless of how you feel it gets represented by various communities, it is a powerful form of programming. I'm not a functional expert, I have only dabbled.

Regardless of how you feel it gets represented by various communities, it is a powerful form of programming. I'm not a functional expert, I have only dabbled. I once rewrote a fairly complex imperative Python text processing program in a functional style. It became much clearer. Most of the code was actually reusable higher order functions, and the program logic became very short and essentially declarative.