For those who haven't seen it, you might enjoy this quip from Guy Steele: And some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a lan

For those who haven't seen it, you might enjoy this quip from Guy Steele: And some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.