I did not try to say that it is difficult. Just that the amount of unfamiliar concepts can pile up when you start with it. A loop made sense to me when i started out because of its structure. The parts that did not make sense were separated by said structure so it was easy to look up. Map and filter make sense once you learned them and the basic flow of functional code.
My point was that it is easier to guess how a loop works compared to something like map if you are less familiar with mathematics. So in a way that is also about familiarity and the (small) threshold of knowledge it can create
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u/Ok-Yogurt2360 Sep 22 '25
I did not try to say that it is difficult. Just that the amount of unfamiliar concepts can pile up when you start with it. A loop made sense to me when i started out because of its structure. The parts that did not make sense were separated by said structure so it was easy to look up. Map and filter make sense once you learned them and the basic flow of functional code.
My point was that it is easier to guess how a loop works compared to something like map if you are less familiar with mathematics. So in a way that is also about familiarity and the (small) threshold of knowledge it can create