How is that a problem of functional programming? When you learn a language you don’t start with “Well in English we say…” you learn language with its idioms and quirks.
It's not. It's a problem with people trying to sell FP to non FP programmers. A non FP programmer doesn't care about monads. They care about making what they already do simpler and clearer.
> When you learn a language you don’t start with “Well in English we say…” you learn language with its idioms and quirks.
Idioms and quirks come after rote memorization of basic vocabulary and sentence structure, which are then used to learn the idioms and quirks. I think Bongo is saying FP-ers are skipping the basic vocabulary part and jumping straight to the idioms and quirks.
It was interesting in 2015/2016 to see co-workers learn some of that basic vocabulary of functional programming without realizing they were touching on it, using map/fold/etc when learning React.
