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Guest post from the future - here's a quote from a similar page on cat-v.org in 2024:

"FO is the “structured programming” snake oil of the 10s. Useful at times, but hardly the “end all” programing paradigm some like to make out of it.

And, at least in it’s most popular forms, it’s can be extremely harmful and dramatically increase complexity."

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Indeed.

It's much easier to be a web contrarian than to build widely-used solutions that don't have limitations, drawbacks, inconsistencies, or other issues.

It is a list of quotes from people who have in fact built such "widely-used solutions". How is that being a "web contrarian"? Do you really think Rob Pike has never written any code? How did go happen then? You don't think Carmack has maybe a little bit of experience with large, complex software projects?

What is FO?

Function Oriented (~ OO: Object Oriented)

Procedural? That's been around for a really long time, and isn't a fad or being pushed by marketers like OO was.

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