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I agree with you on this, since we humans want things in a vague form, and it's still very hard for computers to infer insights from those ambiguous requirements. Not very easy to do that by taking derivatives of function compositions.

functional programming paradigm is boringly honest, you have functions chained together, and you can see exactly how your inputs get transfromed.

You use wire instead of radio wave to design your world.

“The king is surrounded by persons whose only thought is to divert the king, and to prevent his thinking of self. For he is unhappy, king though he be, if he think of himself.

This is all that men have been able to make themselves happy. And those who philosophize on the matter, and who think men unreasonable for spending a whole day in chasing a hare which they would not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase which turns away our attention from these, does screen us.” (Pensees, Blaise Pascal)