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Yah, you’re right. I am sensitive. Comes from being primarily self-taught, and spending a lifetime, staring up noses. I also have problems with “purism,” when it comes to tools and techniques. Purism, by definition, eschews orthogonal viewpoints, and I feel that’s quite destructive. I also feel that it is anti-intellectual. One thing I’ve learned, over the years, is that I was definitely right, yesterday, but I’m definitely wrong, today. Happens regularly, and that can get tiresome (but it’s unavoidable -part of the price I pay, for a career in tech). I really like the ideas behind FP. It’s just that it is not a practical tool, for me to use in anything close to pure form, in the drive towards realizing my goals. I do not have the luxury of purism. I’ve always had to play in someone else’s sandbox, and by their rules. Believe it or not, that can be quite exhilarating. A house framer uses drills, saws, and nailguns. They can’t make these tools, but they use them, to do what the people that designed those tools, cannot do. |