Granted, I'm a mostly self-taught programmer, but I would have thought that if something appears in formal logic,[0] it should have an analog in a programming language.

Even standard algorithms like quicksort[1] use conditionals.

And, while I can see how massive switch statements suck, normal conditionals are common in everyday life: "If they don't have a dark roast coffee, get me a medium roast."

All of which is to say, I really don't understand what he's getting at. The last example he gave seemed to make things even more complicated, and it basically renamed "true" and "false" to more descriptive things (forRealOptions, dryRunOptions), which seems to my untrained eye to boil down to the moral equivalent of a C enum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_conditional

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort#Algorithm