I have a CS degree and I prefer immutable data structures and pure functions. If anything, I believe it might be the other way around, since holding a CS degree

I have a CS degree and I prefer immutable data structures and pure functions. If anything, I believe it might be the other way around, since holding a CS degree means you've had a FP course and you're more aware of the implications of multithreading, immutability and side effects. "Self taught"s are more likely to have an education from online tutorials, which are fairly shallow.