If you aren't able to think about both sides, you've got a massive hole in your education. I'd be willing to bet that the people that came up with software tra

If you aren't able to think about both sides, you've got a massive hole in your education. I'd be willing to bet that the people that came up with software transactional memory were comfortable in C and assembly as well as Haskell, and hadn't bottlenecked themselves with the false dichotomy of thinking functionally vs thinking imperatively. The world needs people who think mechanically AND at a high level of abstraction at at the same time.