> For instance, map and filter typically involve pure functions, which are easier to reason about, and they avoid an entire class of off-by-one iterator bugs.
That's not how "for loops" work in many programming languages! Python being the most obvious, and by some measures the largest programming language of all.
The language matters a lot here too:
> For instance, map and filter typically involve pure functions, which are easier to reason about, and they avoid an entire class of off-by-one iterator bugs.
That's not how "for loops" work in many programming languages! Python being the most obvious, and by some measures the largest programming language of all.