Yes, thanks José. :)

On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 5:54:40 PM UTC-4, José Valim wrote:
>
> That's definitely fair to say, Ben, though I will have to say that as far 
>> as other functional languages go, Elixir *looks* pretty imperative. :)
>>
>
> You probably mean to say Elixir is *sequential*. Imperative programming 
> definition focuses a lot on changing the program state, which is something 
> we minimize in Elixir. For example, using for-loops for mutating an array 
> is an imperative construct, in Elixir we would use Enum.map or recursion, 
> which are on the functional/declarative side.
>
>

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