It's so strange to me that people describe things like higher order functions and map/filter/reduce as being clever / complicated and think manual iteration and

It's so strange to me that people describe things like higher order functions and map/filter/reduce as being clever / complicated and think manual iteration and indexing into an array is "simple". I hate to keep linking to this talk because I don't want to look like too much of a clojure fanboy, but I think a lot of people would benefit from re-examining their definition of simple: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy