On: Don't distract new programmers with OOP

[fogus]

    but if you're writing FP in a legacy environment 
    with lots of nasty complex data structures you have 
    a big headache. This would not be true in the same 
    data environment with a well-constructed OO tier.

With fp languages the tendency is to think in data and abstract via functions. If your functional tier is well-constructed then all is good right? [insert discussion here about what makes a well-constructed functional tier] ;-)