The way I see it, I live in a world that has state. I spend all my waking hours manipulating the state around me. From this perspective, imperative programming is as natural and intuitive as anything can be. You do things, and the world changes.
Abstractions are good, but you should first understand the concrete ideas behind them. Otherwise you may end up doing pure symbolic manipulation without any intuition to guide you.
The way I see it, I live in a world that has state. I spend all my waking hours manipulating the state around me. From this perspective, imperative programming is as natural and intuitive as anything can be. You do things, and the world changes.
Abstractions are good, but you should first understand the concrete ideas behind them. Otherwise you may end up doing pure symbolic manipulation without any intuition to guide you.