> if FP is "better" The term FP has lost precise meaning over time, and split into several related meanings. • Focus on the absence of side-effects. (E.g. Ag

> if FP is "better" The term FP has lost precise meaning over time, and split into several related meanings. • Focus on the absence of side-effects. (E.g. Agda, but not Scala, Ocaml, F#) • Focus on the higher-order functions. (This is no longer controversial, but used to be) • Focus on rich types. (The ML (the programming language) tradition, note that Lisp and even Lambda-calculus were born untyped) • Focus on the use of traditional functional idioms, e.g. map-reduce, even when the implementation is totally not functional. Which one are you referring to?