Daedalus and his son Icarus were imprisoned by King Minos, and made themselves wings out of wax and feathers to escape. Before they took off from the island, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun. The sensation of flying made Icarus forget the warning and he soared higher and higher. Eventually the wax melted and he fell into the sea.
A programmer can escape the prison of procedural programming using functional programming, but going for the purest form of FP isn't really a sustainable goal. Most likely, these wonktional programmers will melt their wings by straying too close to the realm of mathematics and plunge to their deaths.
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