> cognitive overhead is, perhaps, reduced when you can "ground" your understanding in real-life terms. It absolutely reduces cognitive overload. Having "conta

> cognitive overhead is, perhaps, reduced when you can "ground" your understanding in real-life terms. It absolutely reduces cognitive overload. Having "containers" of functionality that allow me to easily know at a glance what I'm working with is invaluable. I'm not knocking functional programming, since I haven't built a few projects in a purely functional language yet, but trying to do some things with the functional paradigm (or at least, my understanding of it) left me recognizing class-based programming as a powerful tool when used correctly.