I&#x27;ve found usually if you cleanly explain what you&#x27;re doing and go through some examples people are willing to learn. Not sure if I&#x27;ve been lucky in that regard, but I&#x27;ve never had the problem this guy clearly has before, with integrating functional ideas into code.<p>I&#x27;ve also found that quite often I actually am at fault because it is reasonable to want to break up dense code into smaller understandable blocks, and while you _can_ write an entire function (or application) as one statement in an FP style, your job isn&#x27;t to show how cool you are, it&#x27;s to write code that your peers can maintain.<p>_(Like that last paragraph. It probably should have been more than once sentence. We live and learn.)_