puritanical

Yes, puritanical is an adjective but the Puritan movement is a proper noun as it is the name of a movement.

There seems to be this puritanical view that beginners should always learn a low-level language because it's good for the soul or something.

We still have some puritanical roots, and discussion still needs to be proper and polite, and politics is not brought to the table often for this reason.

Taking a puritanical approach to programming and weeding out the imperfections leads to a very boring language.

In America, we have this puritanical ideal that working leads to happinessor that working is, itself, happiness.

That law, like nearly every alcohol law, is a puritanical attempt to regulate the morality of adults.

Texas special interests ensure that majority of text books are bland, puritanical and contain creationist pseudo-science.

Sometimes I wish that the US didn't have such a puritanical stance on recreation because we are in danger of creating a dystopian, authoritarian future.

There's an American breed of thought which says that the mere mention of anything related to sex demeans women and objectifies them, which comes from puritanical sensibilities.

"there's a certain puritanical undertone to all of it" which is ironic since those pure public officials want/need to violate the teenager in order to maintain their pure/innocent perception.

"I want Haskell to be most useful only in specific, limited situations where puritanical program correctness is imperative" is a legitimate answer to this question, as is "I want Haskell to be practical enough to be general-purpose".