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And I'd disagree. Numerous engineers of differing skill levels (what I deal with day to day), struggle significantly when map/filter are added into the mix. And we may say "get better engineers", but we don't have that ability. We have to write code that is maintainable for the engineers we have and can get (and the ones coming in the future).

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Come on, map and filter difficult? That's hyperbole of the highest order.

Not really. They require a basic understanding of higher order functions and often heavily use closures. Those moderately advanced concepts. It’s also sometimes harder to write efficiently to avoid multiple iterations over the same collection. I think many many people are way more comfortable with loops than people are with map/filter.

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