[KirinDave]

Once, I was on mailing lists with GVR and other language contributors, and have seem him go off deeply into functional programming. Some of the stuff he wrote went right over my head.

For someone who declares he hates functional programming even at the most basic levels of data stream manipulation, he knows it quite well.

I've always been frustrated with this disconnect, even more acutely than you have, because I know GVR is being disingenuous when he says, "I don't get it." He absolutely does. He thinks other people won't.