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data.for_each( |x| : x-> map ( blah blah blah )))))))

my @result = map { blah blah blah with $_ } @data;

I became a Perl developer at the tail end of the 90's. I learned a lot of functional development and Lisp before I had any idea what they were.

And who'da thunk that all modern language ecosystems would completely ignore the few good parts of CPAN?

No offense kiddo, but that's just sugar. I was passing function pointers and arrays 30 years ago. <old man grumbling ensues>

tbf computer science has not changed. Despite all the tech, we humans still use language to express our ideas so i don't think the coding of thoughts into serial text will go away

Haskell, Lisp and APL have been avoiding for loops for decades.