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If map and reduce were design patterns, you’d be writing out the iteration bits every time you used them. Instead map and reduce are abstractions, and you only

If map and reduce were design patterns, you’d be writing out the iteration bits every time you used them. Instead map and reduce are abstractions, and you only have to plug in your unique functions and values.

juki 6y ago
piva00 probably meant that implementing map and reduce for a data structure, rather than the use of them, is a design pattern.
- piva00 6y ago
  That was my point, thanks for clarifying it :)