For what it's worth, my own experience has been that becoming fluent with the functional style makes the imperative style seem really bizarre. I've made multipl

For what it's worth, my own experience has been that becoming fluent with the functional style makes the imperative style seem really bizarre. I've made multiple attempts to learn Go, but for the life of me I can't; it seems so byzantine and archaic, like a creaking, inconsistent Rube Goldberg machine. The feeling in functional languages that everything is an expression and evaluates to a value actually feels really liberating; everything can be thought of a series of transformations. This is not meant to argue with you, merely to provide the viewpoint that imperative programming is yet another valid way of performing computation, not necessarily the _natural_ way.