Most people that know both, find functional languages far easier to read than imperative languages. They are declarative and permit a wider range of abstractions. Operator-overloading is a similar example that comes up for debate, over-and-over again. There are people that simply do not want to learn any new abstractions and are happy to read and write the same patterns/code over-and-over again. The problem for the rest of us, is that we may find ourselves in a position where we have to maintain code written by these heathens.
