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>"You have to embrace functional programming as a paradigm."

Why would I embrace/commit to any particular paradigms? I would use whatever I believe is best suitable for particular task. All those are just tools like a screwdriver. They're here to work for us, not the other way around.

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Sure, but functional programming requires some discipline and restrictions for a greater good. It's certainly a choice though.

>"Sure, but functional programming requires some discipline and restrictions for a greater good"

I do not care about some generic "greater good". It does not exist. In my context "greater good" is delivering products while satisfying business and technical constraints of a given customer/s to a reasonable degree.

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