In a paragraph...

or two, describe to me why you love functional programming and lisp/scheme/haskell so damn much /prog. You guys seem to be convinced that it's a superior way to program when conceptually it seems rather limited in comparison to imperative programming.

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Then tell me, how do you update the value of something when you can't change state?

Also, OOP is a hell of a lot less abstracted from the CPU's line of thinking when it isn't taking away one of the most basic operations, which is reading and writing to memory.