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You are making unfair and uninformed assumptions about me, someone you do not know. I've worked professionally as a full-time Clojure developer for many, many years.

> you have no ability to apply the quote at all.

You don't know what my abilities are.

The quoted part reminds me of the fizzbuzz enterprise edition.

I definitely saw nothing but sarcasm in the comment you are replying to.

But now after looking at their other comments, I see it was not sarcasm.

What an understatement for how messy functional programming can actually be.

I don’t know what percentage of errors are caught by static typing, but I do know what percentage of my time has been saved by switching to a statically typed language. I love clojure, but I spent at least an order of magnitude more time tracking down various bugs than I do now, simply because the compiler didn’t catch them for me.

Totally agree, functional programming, and certainly the kind of programming you do with clojure, can get just as messy and far away from your goals as object oriented code.

Clear, organized, well-architected code, in any language, is the skill that takes a long time to develop. I do not personally find clojure makes this any easier than in any language.