If you try to do your entire program as pure FP then I guess that is true, but it's often possible and beneficial to do a lot of the work in a functional style.

If you try to do your entire program as pure FP then I guess that is true, but it's often possible and beneficial to do a lot of the work in a functional style. Honestly though, this misses the point. If your language forces you to use an unsuitable paradigm, it's time to use another language if you can.