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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Nope, in a functional language you state what happens ans what the answer is and then work to get there, not the other way around like in imperative.

Wow, I hadn't realized how much sense that makes.