> I remember when anonymous functions (indeed, first-class functions at all) were considered academic nonsense that just obfuscated problems. I've been program

> I remember when anonymous functions (indeed, first-class functions at all) were considered academic nonsense that just obfuscated problems. I've been programming since the mid-90s. I've used both Lisp and Haskell. I don't ever remember even crusty old C greybeards considering anonymous functions to be academic nonsense.