I made a load-testing tool using Clojure [1] and it did seem like a bit of an unusual use case for functional programming. Upon researching further, I found th

I made a load-testing tool using Clojure [1] and it did seem like a bit of an unusual use case for functional programming. Upon researching further, I found that was actually to be expected as Object Oriented Programming was originally implemented as a way to help model simulations: "The formal programming concept of objects was introduced in the 1960s in Simula 67, a major revision of Simula I, a programming language designed for discrete event simulation..." [2] [1] https://github.com/alanning/meteor-load-test https://github.com/alanning/meteor-load-test [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#His...