To lay it all out in full: TFA wrote out a bunch of problems with imperative code asked you to take it on faith that imperative is not inferior to functional.

To lay it all out in full: TFA wrote out a bunch of problems with imperative code asked you to take it on faith that imperative is not inferior to functional. Then he added a bunch of snark, implying that functional programming is just a superiority complex (which is what I quoted). I quoted the snark to indicate that I was very aware that the author was mocking FP. serbuvlad asked why you can't just X. I linked to the exact function that does that for you. do_not_redeem then suggested I was unaware that the author was mocking FP.