Well, yes, our current implementations of computation ultimately are all imperative, which explains the preponderance of imperative thinker in the programming f

Well, yes, our current implementations of computation ultimately are all imperative, which explains the preponderance of imperative thinker in the programming field. However, this is an implementation detail. Had the first processors been declarative (as they very well could have been, when you think of thing like automaton chips), we would have seen things play out differently. My point was that making broad generalizations like the one above automatically shuts out a large portion of the potential programming community.