[mrkeen]

Agree with most, especially that C-style for-loops used to be the most natural thing.

I'm more pessimistic about:

> It has only been in the last 10-20 years that the majority of working software engineers have fully recognized the difficulty of managing shared mutable state

I suspect that the number of practicing programmers who don't worry about shared mutable state is growing much faster than the number who do worry. To quote Uncle Bob: "the industry as a whole will remain dominated by novices, and exist in a state of perpetual immaturity"