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We're WAY past the point where it is acceptable to pretend basics like map and filter are some esoteric functional thing. Every reasonable language has them, a
by papsosouid 14y ago
We're WAY past the point where it is acceptable to pretend basics like map and filter are some esoteric functional thing. Every reasonable language has them, and no language without them is worth even considering.
- eckyptang 14y agomap and filter are no problem: https://github.com/tcard/functional https://github.com/tcard/functional I can't say I've actually needed to use map or filter. You can, much as people did for the last 30 years and still do with C, quite happily do this sort of stuff with a for loop...
- papsosouid 14y agoPeople spent years without loops too, "quite happily" doing it with jumps. Lacking useful abstractions is not a case of preference, it is being inferior.