Still ahead of mainstream programming languages, which are typically imperative by design, and usually overly "noun" focused compared to the "verb"-friendly nat

Still ahead of mainstream programming languages, which are typically imperative by design, and usually overly "noun" focused compared to the "verb"-friendly nature of Lisp. Adding map/reduce/etc. to the noun languages is a bolt-on that is not exactly ideal. Take Java 8 which now has map: sure, you can pass a lambda expression with a custom function body, but is using functions (particularly side-effect-free ones) as arguments idiomatic otherwise? I can only imagine the amount of ceremony code that ensues when trying to merge those worlds. Don't get me wrong, having map/reduce/etc. is an improvement to Java for sure, but Lisp is still well ahead on the overall cohesion and utility of such things within the context of the rest of the language.