[Raknarg]

Honestly I'm not sure if OO is actually easier to understand than FP. I remember when I started programming it was a crappy but simple language called Turing that was procedural and had support for objects and pointers.

We weren't really taught classes in my high school course, so everything we did was entirely imperitive. I came across a problem where I had about 20 different entities in a game who all had a special way of updating during each tick, but I didn't want to have to write a switch statement for each one. I looked up "How to have an array of functions", and without knowing it at the time I was trying to implement first-class functions in this language which it just so happened to have.

From there it's easy to see how once you understand the concept of first class functions, many FP concepts start to fall in line, and by the way the language was set up it was difficult to use side-effects in this language, generally you use a function to output to the screen or to return a new resulting value. In fact when it finally came around to learning about classes, I had a very difficult time understanding how they worked or what purpose they served, made my Java classes in University difficult for some time.

I'm not sure what point I'm making here, I just thought how it was neat looking back that my first language I learned I naturally branched into more FP-oriented programming.