Why the heck would you write the functional recipe the way he wrote it?<p>1. Take an oven and apply 175 C setting on it, producing a preheated oven. Set this aside.<p>2. Take two 8 inch round pans and some grease and flour, produce two 8 inch round pans with grease and flour applied on them.<p>3. Take a small bowl, some flour, baking soda, salt, salt and a whisk (a first-class function), return a small bowl with flour, baking soda and salt whisked in it.<p>and so on.<p>When you think of functional programs as series of operations chained together, it becomes really natural. In most recipes you don&#x27;t need to loop back to an existing state.a