[drharris]

My main point was that bad code exists in all paradigms. If there were a perfect language or paradigm, everybody would be using it and there would be no such debate. Immutability is not necessarily good or bad, same for mutability. We should all do a better job at explaining to beginning programmers how to use all paradigms appropriately, and how to choose among them. And of course, to use vi.

[nested]

Why should I use vi? Why wouldn't this decision be similar to what paradigm I choose?

[drharris]

It was a joke. Emacs vs. Vi, FP vs OOP, etc. All members of the set of useless debate topics.