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Re:Processing Hour of Code by eru on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @04:46AM (#6807312)
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.

Re:Processing Hour of Code by vijucat on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @09:20AM (#6808118)
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. :-)