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.
And just like modern scripting languages, it reduced execution speed by about 50x.
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