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> I think part of this is because my school, like most, started students off with an imperative/procedural language (C++). If you have a clean slate (e.g. someo

> I think part of this is because my school, like most, started students off with an imperative/procedural language (C++). If you have a clean slate (e.g. someone with zero programming knowledge) it’s probably just as easy It's definitely not. Source: I know a lot of people who had Caml classes before C classes, C was much easier. Also in my school we learned C and LISP at the same time, most people also found C easier.

shepherdjerred 5y ago
That's a really interesting data point! It's entirely possible that functional programming languages are just objectively harder to learn. I suspect that if someone has a strong background in mathematics they might take to functional programming easier than they might other languages. I could definitely be wrong though!