if you were to program in JS in a style which calls for passing operations around you would have the operator `+` wrapped, so the second version would probably

if you were to program in JS in a style which calls for passing operations around you would have the operator `+` wrapped, so the second version would probably look like this var sum = range(100).reduce(0, plus); or rather var total = sum(range(100)); this does not take away from the beauty of APL.