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Re:Go 2 Draft Designs by nine_k on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:11PM (#17861904)
Lisp tends to build abstractions, too, and it also does that via macros, which are even harder to mentally parse unless you have a habit.

I'd say that to attain simplicity and clarity, you have to limit the use of abstraction. OTOH there's no way to avoid abstraction at all; programming is all about abstraction. If the means of abstraction are not powerful enough, copy-paste programming and boilerplate proliferate, making code less maintainable and harder to understand.

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Re:Go 2 Draft Designs by platinumrad on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:18PM (#17861976)
In my opinion, implementing these higher order functions with the help of one powerful abstraction (generics) is much simpler than having to deal with a bunch of special cased weaker abstractions (magic map, magic filter, magic reduce, magic...).
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