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Re:What is "good taste" in software engineering? by boxed on Monday September 29, 2025 @12:07PM (#45415465)
> for loop

The language matters a lot here too:

> For instance, map and filter typically involve pure functions, which are easier to reason about, and they avoid an entire class of off-by-one iterator bugs.

That's not how "for loops" work in many programming languages! Python being the most obvious, and by some measures the largest programming language of all.

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