[codygman]

> In my humble opinion, those two things are equal in difficulty and consequences.

I'm not so sure, I'll give this idea some thought though.

> I had almost the same number of bugs in my ML application that I would have in the imperative program, but they manifested in different ways.

Can you talk about some of the different ways the same bug manifested?

[axilmar]

I didn't say 'the same bug manifested in different ways', I said 'same number of bugs but manifested in different ways'.

I.e. the defect ratio was similar, bugs in my FP program were of different type than in the imperative ones.