That's definitely true, but no functional language is going to help with that. Those are only farther from the metal. The only thing I think Java handicapped

That's definitely true, but no functional language is going to help with that. Those are only farther from the metal. The only thing I think Java handicapped me with was understanding pass-by-reference or pass-by-value, but I figured it out when someone told me that Java is "pass by reference by value" meaning that in the method meth(Object obj) { ... } if you do obj.something() you are editing the original object, but obj = newObject won't change the original reference.