Functional Programming

I'd been trolled by /porg/ long enough that I thought I'd look into functional programming...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
Spreadsheets can also be viewed as functional programming languages.

Read that far and immediately understood both the nature of functional programming and the reason I'll never use it.

Because programs do not take inputs, trasform and output them, transforming data is bad, etc.

>>1
Enjoy the madness of object-oriented boilerplate and patterns!

>>3
I do not C these problems you speak of

>>4

Implying C is not also object oriented.

>>3
I can't help but noticing an equally valid comparison:
Spreadsheets can also be viewed as object oriented programming languages.

>>5
Go back to /g/.

>>4
Don't worry, it has many other, bigger, worse problems, flaws, etc, to compensate.