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As it always has, because we don't have the millitary power or population to defend any of our own territory. The US does that for us. It's unfortunate Canadians have been unable to expand in our own territory over the few hundred years Europeans have been in this place.
We weren't really taught classes in my high school course, so everything we did was entirely imperitive. I came across a problem where I had about 20 different entities in a game who all had a special way of updating during each tick, but I didn't want to have to write a switch statement for each one. I looked up "How to have an array of functions", and without knowing it at the time I was trying to implement first-class functions in this language which it just so happened to have.
From there it's easy to see how once you understand the concept of first class functions, many FP concepts start to fall in line, and by the way the language was set up it was difficult to use side-effects in this language, generally you use a function to output to the screen or to return a new resulting value. In fact when it finally came around to learning about classes, I had a very difficult time understanding how they worked or what purpose they served, made my Java classes in University difficult for some time.
I'm not sure what point I'm making here, I just thought how it was neat looking back that my first language I learned I naturally branched into more FP-oriented programming.
e.g. I live in Canada. Pretty sure HBO Go doesn't support Canada, and I'm sure as hell not wasting my money on cable TV just to see Game of Thrones. I'd rather pirate it. But if I can watch something on Netflix, obviously I'd rather just do that and pay for the service.
My only hope is that we get more Fisk.
Personally I don't really, mostly because his personal views never come into play on his actual show. This kind of thing always happens when you get someone involved in comedy to participate in a serious discussion, you start realizing they have opinions and views that you may not like.