it occurs to me that when you're programming functionally, especially in a functional language, you must think about your data's structure and types first (or f

it occurs to me that when you're programming functionally, especially in a functional language, you must think about your data's structure and types first (or fight a whole lot with the language). if linus is correct, could a strength of FP be that it naturally herds its users down the path of the 'good programmer'?