[chii]

> definitely seen people struggle to wrap their head around...

I think it's a top-down vs bottoms-up approach to solving a problem.

Most people actually think in terms of top-down. They break a problem down into smaller sub-problems, which they then either break down more or has done sufficient breaking down to solve it.

I think functional style of thinking would make you do a bottoms-up approach to problem solving. You will create a very small solution (function) to solve a very trivial version/type of the problem, then repeat for each small thing. Once you have sufficient number of basic functions written, you can assemble them into solving a bigger problem.

[nineteen999]

You can take either approach in nearly any other programming language. I disagree that functional programming has any particular advantage here.