If you learned that &quot;programming is like telling the computer a recipe&quot; I can see how FP looks strange.<p>It&#x27;s a bad analogy though.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.cs.wisc.edu&#x2F;~remzi&#x2F;Naur.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.cs.wisc.edu&#x2F;~remzi&#x2F;Naur.pdf</a>