Purist Programming

Programming is about making things. Purity is about adhering strictly to a set of rules. It seems that one should favor the programming over the purity. Abstractions should be minimal.

Think about this thing from John Cook on "Pretending OOP Never Happened".

That has been my experience. I hardly ever write classes anymore; I write functions. But I don’t write functions quite the way I did before I spent years writing classes.
And while I don’t often write classes, I do often use classes that come from libraries. Sometimes these objects seem like they’d be better off as bare functions, but I imagine the same libraries would be harder to use if no functions were wrapped in objects.

Cook then quotes James Hague's "Follow-up to "Functional Programming Doesn't Work":

100% pure functional programing doesn’t work. Even 98% pure functional programming doesn’t work. But if the slider between functional purity and 1980s BASIC-style imperative messiness is kicked down a few notches — say to 85% — then it really does work. You get all the advantages of functional programming, but without the extreme mental effort and unmaintainability that increases as you get closer and closer to perfectly pure.

Getting to the point of it, the pure functional people are the most annoying people in the world. The world has state. You need state.

I really get annoyed by the programming paradigms in place now on the web, particularly the front end paradigms. There is a very simple event driven model that works surprisingly well. The component is an object, with state, that responds to events...anyway probably worth exploring the world of JavaScript separately.