Right -- like Haskell, for example. Mixed paradigm programming is surely the way to go; ideology is surely the wrong way. C and OCaml both support mixed progr

Right -- like Haskell, for example. Mixed paradigm programming is surely the way to go; ideology is surely the wrong way. C and OCaml both support mixed programming, but Haskell supports it better: monads allow you to isolate the side-effecting portions of your program. It's funny that the OP mentions Backus' FP, which had a "job control" language that functioned like the IO monad.