This is such a silly criticism, and is even sillier by the fact that I already answered it: > And now you have a bunch of general-purpose, easily-tested functi

This is such a silly criticism, and is even sillier by the fact that I already answered it: > And now you have a bunch of general-purpose, easily-tested functions that you can apply in similar situations all over the place. EDIT: Not to mention that at least 10 of those lines could be removed with built-in currying and/or partial application, which any self-respecting functional language supports directly. JavaScript is not counted among these.