It is not a straw man, because I have encountered this attitude repeatedly. But I do believe it is a loud, but small, minority. It is certainly not something t

It is not a straw man, because I have encountered this attitude repeatedly. But I do believe it is a loud, but small, minority. It is certainly not something that all FP advocates believe. I consider myself an FP advocate in the end, after all. They're just also a really annoying loud small minority, made all the more annoying by the fact they're fundamentally wrong about what functional programming is about.