Ciro Santilli Even if we cannot do everything in functional, we should at least strive to clearly extract functional substes in what we do.
Ciro Santilli thinks imperative programming is just a superset of functional programming where you can have state.
Python: OMG, please, just make it work!!! Your are interpreted!!! You are a hot web technology!!! Node.js and Ruby are doing just fine, and Ruby is not newer than you!!! See also: pip.
Interestingly, the very first programming language with an actual implementation was interpreted: Short Code in 1950.
This is not surprising, as interpreters are easier to write than compilers.
And just like modern scripting languages, it reduced execution speed by about 50x.