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Big time.

It's especially depressing given their huge focus on "object oriented programming," given the 1000s of travesties birthed in its name on an hourly basis in BigCos of the world.

1) Even if you don't code FP in your day job, your sanity and code will benefit permanently from a strong grounding in it.

2) Nothing beats getting paid to code FP.



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