It's hard to disambiguate familiarity, but I'd suggest that imperative languages are more similar to spoken/written human language, particularly english. I'd s

It's hard to disambiguate familiarity, but I'd suggest that imperative languages are more similar to spoken/written human language, particularly english. I'd suspect if you gave someone who didn't know lisp or java a simple program and had them try and explain what it was doing they'd have more luck with understanding the java syntax.