Whenever I look it just looks pointlessly complicated Well naturally if all you do is 'look'. Is that how you learnt whatever programming language or style yo

Whenever I look it just looks pointlessly complicated Well naturally if all you do is 'look'. Is that how you learnt whatever programming language or style you use now? You just glanced at some code and the necessary cognitive structures leapt with ease into your mind? perhaps you have to have a special gene to figure this stuff out Well I'm learning Clojure right now. It doesn't seem complicated to me (though it is unfamiliar enough that I have to think quite hard about how to do things, which strikes me as a good thing). And, for reference, I'd generally place myself in the lower 30% or so of developers in terms of natural ability. It sounds to me like you're just not very curious about what functional approaches have to offer. Which should be perfectly fine. But your comment sounds like a complaint.