@kevin cline: Thanks for the feedback. Care to elaborate your comment in an answer?

@TomCaps: Ia already have some exposure to the FP features of C# and Python and use them whenever oportunity presents itself, but I just think there's more to it than "a cooler way of doing iterative stuff". From here my question.

@Vladimir Volodin: That would be nice but it's not mandatory for every book. Can you recommend some good ones (preferably language agnostic)?

@Péter Török: Yes, and it takes your entire foot away (c++ :D). I said "more static" trying to avoid flame wars for something like... I don't know... Java?!?!... which everybody seems to hate as it is thought at school/universities and people have some scares from it...

Counter analogy: Teaching your kid about not playing with fire. 1) You can talk to him, explain what fire is and what fire does, show PowerPoint slides whatever.. or 2) let him play with fire and get burned. The second method is far more efficient indeed. What I'm interested about is the possibility that he might set the house on fire or even like it and become a pyromaniac because no safety measures were taken. Kind of an extreme situation but can't really express it in words.