[ttz]

Yeah pretty much this.

If a paradigm (whether functional, OOP, or whatever label makes you feel better) isn't working for you when it has worked for many others, maybe it's not because the paradigm sucks... it's because you might just suck at the paradigm?

Obviously there are cases where things were pigeonholed into the wrong paradigm for the job. Then it's a case of the person choosing the paradigm sucking at choosing the paradigm. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

[solraph]

Absolutely. I really want to love FP style programming, but I just can't get it to gel in my head. I'm totally on board with the concepts of side effect free programming, minimising state, passing around functions as parameters, etc...

But I struggle with reading it, and I struggle with writing it, and I struggle to build a conceptual framework of how FP style components fit together. I've been banging my head against the FP wall for _years_ now, and I still can't seem get a level of fluency that where I'm comfortable using it regularly.

That doesn't mean FP sucks, it just means my brain isn't wired that way.