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Discussion on: Explain functional programming paradigm Like I'm Five

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Jacek Złydach

I read somewhere that functional programming was easier for young kids to understand than imperative. Maybe you should ask for it to be explained like you're 20.

This is true in so far as this is how math works, and people learn that in school. Learning imperative programming involves understanding things like "function" of "what X = 2 means" differently than in math classes, whereas in functional programming, those concepts are behave similar to math.