You seem to be obsessed with this idea that "functional programming" is a fancy term for squishing your entire program onto one line via gratuitous use of anony

You seem to be obsessed with this idea that "functional programming" is a fancy term for squishing your entire program onto one line via gratuitous use of anonymous functions, which simply isn't true. I don't know what this snippet of code is supposed to do, and it's not very pretty, but guess what: it is just as easy to produce unreadable garbage in an "imperative style". I've seen a lot of both, but more of the latter.