I've also found similar - I wonder if there's something about functional programming that means the language syntax /has/ to be obtuse... (Similar with Haskell

I've also found similar - I wonder if there's something about functional programming that means the language syntax /has/ to be obtuse... (Similar with Haskell too -- learning that at university, I loved the concepts, and I'm sure it's technically great, but the APIs seem almost deliberately horrible; one-character variable names, array append and prepend being called "cdr" and "car" or something like that, stuff like that all throughout the standard library and tutorials. I don't care that there's a historic reason for that based in the PDP's Lisp-to-assembly compiler, if the function's job is to append it should be called "append()" -_-;; </rant>)