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Someone that works is better than something that tells someone to work. ;)
In the words of Beck, "Hell Yes"
It depends. A functional approach is extremely awesome to have available, and it's always going to be an optimizer's best friend, but sometimes a given algorithm is much clearer to describe using imperative style.
That's why I'm a huge fan of the modern dynamic languages like Perl, Python, and company. They have all the fun stuff from functional programming (e.g. closures), with less of the mess.