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		Msurrow on July 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What if you couldn’t program with loops? If you were a programming language designer, would you implement a map, filter or reduce command?

lagadu on July 15, 2019 | [–]

God yes. As a .net developer, it's extremely rare for a day to go by where I don't put them to use (via linq). They get so much stuff done.

diego on July 15, 2019 | [–]

yes, of course. And obviously I would do it with loops, so you don't have to. Ultimately a Turing machine needs to have loops somewhere. The best you can do is abstract them.

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