Do you think monads, functors, recursion, and immutability (just to take a few staples of functional programming) are easier for a beginner to wrap their head around than loops, re-using variables, etc?
I would be surprised if, using a sample group of say 100 beginner programmers, the majority found Haskell easier to learn and write beginner stuff in than JavaScript, python, or insert-primarily-imperative-language-here.
I would be surprised if, using a sample group of say 100 beginner programmers, the majority found Haskell easier to learn and write beginner stuff in than JavaScript, python, or insert-primarily-imperative-language-here.