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t-3today at 6:23 PM1 replyview on HN

There are way more places where a simple typo will ruin you in a for loop than a reduce or fold or map. Using briefer abstractions in place of nested loops is almost always preferable.


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robrenaudtoday at 7:20 PM

> Using briefer abstractions in place of nested loops is almost always preferable.

Indeed, this is why everyone knows the J programming language.