Let me ask you a question: is using numbers natural? Apparently it is not, because otherwise it wouldn't have taken so long for the concept to spread, and folk

Let me ask you a question: is using numbers natural? Apparently it is not, because otherwise it wouldn't have taken so long for the concept to spread, and folks like the romans would have used 0 from the beginning. But just because something is not natural does not mean it is not more productive than the alternative solutions, given that one spends the time to learn it. So, maybe mutating state is natural - but I would object the claim that this means it is more productive.