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I am both quite happy and a little sad that the chapter on functional programming was nixed from the first edition.

It was way over the heads of the beginners the book was aimed at, but it sure was fun to try and figure out.

Is that stuff in the chapter called higher order functions now?

http://eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.html

From my quick skim checking to see if it was still there, no. He touches on some of the same points, but it's not nearly as in-depth or crazy (in a wonderful, functional way).

After looking at the old chapter again (http://eloquentjavascript.net/1st_edition/chapter6.html), it isn't as intimidating as before. So yeah, maybe it is still mostly all there -- it seems the ES5 syntax makes it way less confusing

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