As I get older, I realize that the functional/imperative debate is far from over. To say that functional code is "more intuitive" is not only off the point but, I would argue, wrong.
Imperative code is much more intuitive in the small. That's why we lose when we make side-by-side code snippets of small toy programs and call it a case for FP. The 25-line imperative method is often more intuitive than the highly-dense 6-line functional one. The problem is that imperative code composes very poorly.
Here's a reddit post I wrote about it a few months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/14hhwa/program_...
Imperative code is much more intuitive in the small. That's why we lose when we make side-by-side code snippets of small toy programs and call it a case for FP. The 25-line imperative method is often more intuitive than the highly-dense 6-line functional one. The problem is that imperative code composes very poorly.