Actually this is wrong - for example one study [0] shows only 12% of non-programmers approach problems like this while 54% use event-based approaches. Anecdotal

Actually this is wrong - for example one study [0] shows only 12% of non-programmers approach problems like this while 54% use event-based approaches. Anecdotally, I've found good mathematicians who come to programming after their studies tend to dislike imperative systems too. http://alumni.cs.ucr.edu/~ratana/PaneRatanamahatanaMyers00.pdf http://alumni.cs.ucr.edu/~ratana/PaneRatanamahatanaMyers00.p...