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> it's harder to start with an FP language. Nobody is disputing that.

I'll dispute it. For me, the functional paradigm clicked much easier than OOP and it's zillion abstrations and patterns. I'd argue that the best thing about functional programming is it's actually easier to reason about.

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Eventually, yes. But if you were immersed in OOP/imperative languages for 14-15 years as I was (before learning Elixir) then it is really hard to muscle through the exercises and learn to think the FP way.

After that happened however, FP became much easier and much more pleasant to work with.

agreed. I'd been going steadily more fp in my style for years while working in c/c++, php, C#, scala,coffeescript etc. before finally going all in with elixir for the last few years. It makes many, but of course not all, things more straight forward compared to imperative programming.

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