I don't think that's the syntax people find hard. I think its the semantics. The functional way of doing things confuses people. The fact that your program is

I don't think that's the syntax people find hard. I think its the semantics. The functional way of doing things confuses people. The fact that your program is a single nested chain of function calls I think is what people struggle with most. That and the dynamism. The whole thing just needs time getting used to, because it's unfamiliar.