"I loved the hieroglyph page; I think that functional programming failed for years as an engineering discipline because of the culture of that style of code."

"I loved the hieroglyph page; I think that functional programming failed for years as an engineering discipline because of the culture of that style of code." I don't quite follow your observation, but if you are suggesting that this function would be better with verbose, Englishy naming, I think you are mistaken. Quite the opposite, the parametrically is better illustrated with hieroglyphs. Regarding failing "for years as an engineering discipline", are you suggesting that imperative programming was "successful" because of the reliance on using naming to communicate intent in the midst of rampant state mutation and unbridled complexity?