I'm not saying that every language is the same. I'm saying it's very difficult to define styles of programming, but if you have a particular style (in this case

I'm not saying that every language is the same. I'm saying it's very difficult to define styles of programming, but if you have a particular style (in this case functional), you will gravitate towards languages that facilitate that style. At the boundary, where a language doesn't have a particular leaning, the style that you will adhere to is going to be influenced much more by the community around the language than its features.