And it's not so much that I hate type driven programming or purity. I just view them as tools in my toolbox, not as methodologies or worse - religions. I still think objects are an amazing concept if you look at them through the smalltalk lens. Or if you take a moment to step back and realise that an anonymous function is very similar to an object with an "apply" method, or that a constructor for an immutable object is like a functor that partially applies many related functions at once.