[Jtsummers]

I somehow overlooked this when I originally read your comment (or it didn't register if I did read it):

> One cannot just ignore this decades long struggle of functional people bullying us in the procedural camp. [emphasis added]

"Bullying" is quite a strong word. What kind of bullying happens?

Besides the silliness of the term, the other thing I want to comment on: Stop being in a camp. The best way to stop learning is to assign yourself to a camp and to only do what that camp does and only believe what that camp believes. Expand your horizons, learn about other camps and why they do what they do and believe what they believe. You'll eventually learn that no paradigm is "right" (in an absolute sense) and that, instead, they all have right approaches to large portions of the problem of programming but wrong approaches for some (potentially substantial, but usually not) other portion of programming.

[mybrid]

UC Berkeley uses Scheme as the first course for CS for a reason, to weed out people. I've seen first hand people struggle with functional programming to much higher degrees than procedural. I'm not in the procedural camp per se, I'm in the common person camp who struggles with things like async and functional programming.