On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin@btinternet.com> wrote:

(Mr C++ argues that homo sapiens fundamentally think in an imperative way, and therefore functional programming in general will never be popular. We shall see...)

You could use the same argument against, say, utensils. Being "natural" or "intuitive" is a 100% irrelevant metric for any tool. What matters is if it's effective or not.