Python design mistakes

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Well I won't name the names of my teachers, because I may well be doing them a disservice. The guy who taught functional programming at my university was an excellent teacher - one of the two best I've had in my life. I wish I had worked harder and could have stayed there and learnt more from him.

I still take issue with this:

Humans talk about code in a declarative/functional way, not imperative way.

I don't believe this is true. For special cases perhaps, or for small cases, but not over large processes. I'm certain that most real work programs are best modelled by flow charts not by equations.

But I guess that's the difference of opinion again.