> The answer is a more functional style, partial application and immutability solves so much of what people are talking about, but nobody wants to learn to use

> The answer is a more functional style, partial application and immutability solves so much of what people are talking about, but nobody wants to learn to use functional languages. People still use default arguments in functional programming when they can: see for example functions that take a map of arguments that’s merged into a default one.