> Functional languages are an improvement in this respect over C/C++/Java etc with their explicit loop iteration statements. Not to put too fine a point on it,

> Functional languages are an improvement in this respect over C/C++/Java etc with their explicit loop iteration statements. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Smalltalk had folding way back when (inject:into:). Higher order functions are not a specialty of functional programming; technically, even C has higher order functions, they're just more verbose because C doesn't support inline closure literals.