What if turns out to be exactly like that in real life, too? :-)

I suppose it would cause some cognitive dissonance. One question I had while thinking about the (purely hypothetical) dissonance was : "Is he being overly enthusiastic, or is my low-key behaviour a subtle result of years and years of programming and debugging in an imperative model, where I literally have to internalize the computer, the Von Neumann architecture, and did I somehow end up being an unemotional VERSION of IT, a robot-human hybrid?!". A horrific thought, eh?! :-)

Just the opposite:

Von Neumann programming would make you overly excitable, what with all these state changes and side effects.

Pure functional programming leads to immutable calm.

Ha ha, thanks for the interesting perspective + play on words; "immutable calm" is a gem. You've got me worried, though; I AM overly excitable! Luckily, that excitement is due to the elegance of my / the solutions to the Scala programming assignments in the ongoing Coursera courses, so there may be some "immutable calm" in my near future. :-)

I was not expecting to read a comment like that on my Wednesday afternoon. Certainly thought provoking ;)

Thank you! :-)

Mind blown!

Mind blown!