I had the opportunity to meet John Backus, the inventor of functional programming, when I worked at IBM. I definitely didn't "get it" the first time. Indeed, not until many years later.
I wrote this article, Functional Programming in TS[0] which has a lot of good background info and explanations. At least I think so, lol! And it's been pretty popular. See what you think:
Every concept is good when applied in the right place for the right cause. But programmers often tend to idolize particular tech to the degree that anything else is anathema.
