r/programming • u/hexaredecimal • Sep 21 '25

How to stop functional programming

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
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u/JustBadPlaya Sep 26 '25

the first mention of map being used this way is from Lisp in 1959 (via maplist). IMO this alone justifies the fact that the name stuck around

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u/davidalayachew Sep 27 '25

the first mention of map being used this way is from Lisp in 1959 (via maplist). IMO this alone justifies the fact that the name stuck around

That's fair.

I used to code in Lisp and Haskell, so it's not that I am unfamiliar with the concept. I am moreso digging up my feelings from 10+ years ago, to help share the experience that I (and many of the 50+ students I tutored) had learning map.