On: Programming and thinking the functional way

[the_af]

That's a really minor issue, and to me it's disingenuous to imply it makes a difference for the comparison at hand.

Would it really change the argument if the Java code used a static method and passed all variables as arguments, instead of using instance members?

[ww520 → the_af]

Yes, it would make a big difference and make one of his central claims go away - stateful requirement for qsort in Java.

[the_af → ww520]

You're right, as I replied to you elsewhere. I had missed that the author made the "stateful" argument, and I focused on verbosity and things like i and j instead.