I am fed up with these "pure" people.

They have hijacked every sane discussion about programming into a condescending -- "Do you have monads and typeclasses ?".

It's absolutely unhealthy.

State is not Evil.

Languages like clojure, scheme take imperative features and give it more beautiful abstractions.

In what profession, do you find people complaining about the very foundations and thinking it's cool ? It's like Musicians saying Rhythm is stupid.

If you haven't written a State Machine with goto's and never marvelled at it's beauty ... please just try it.