I suppose there are two ways to interpret that trope. First, that it's easier to teach someone carte blanche to program at some goalpost level of skill via Hask

I suppose there are two ways to interpret that trope. First, that it's easier to teach someone carte blanche to program at some goalpost level of skill via Haskell than other languages. Second, that it's easier to teach someone who has no knowledge of programming otherwise to understand Haskell than it is to teach someone with "imperative experience" to understand it. I wonder what your thoughts are these days on each of these. My understanding is that you have the requisite experience to talk about it, like few others! It's finally interesting to me to state that I think the best version of that trope, though one that is impractical and untestable, is that it's easier to teach a newbie to program Haskell than an experienced Java programmer ignoring some set of standard, non-linguistic training points. This is the most interesting since it gets directly at there being some kind of "imperative mindset impedance" which is presumed to exist, but it's the least testable since I'm certain nobody will ever agree on what those "non-linguistic training points" are. It's probably folly to assume they exist, even. Anyway, I'd love to hear your thoughts.