I am not as experienced as you, far from it, but my -very limited - understanding of functional programming is that it's all about limiting side effects, which

I am not as experienced as you, far from it, but my -very limited - understanding of functional programming is that it's all about limiting side effects, which means limiting the ways you can screw up something. I could try to explain what I think, but John Carmack did it much better than I would ever do in a blog post, that was once submitted on HN: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programming-in-c/ http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programm...