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That's kind of another aspect of the social-IQ divide.

Programming is very democratic and blue collar as white collar jobs go: you can get stuff done without a lot of formal education (OR the formal certification of (ahem) REAL engineering professions).

So either you ivory tower and sniff at the lower classes and use FP and higher tools, or you "get stuff done" actually making tools (like the dude who make the OSX package management getting stiffarmed by google).

The old CS vs no CS divide actually fissures quite dramatically in alignment with FP vs no FP.