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Re:Will Go be the new go-to programming language? by papsosouid on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:28AM (#4516630)
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.
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Re:Will Go be the new go-to programming language? by eckyptang on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:42AM (#4516736)
map and filter are no problem:

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...

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Re:Will Go be the new go-to programming language? by papsosouid on Thursday September 13, 2012 @01:54PM (#4517591)
People spent years without loops too, "quite happily" doing it with jumps. Lacking useful abstractions is not a case of preference, it is being inferior.
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