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Ah, come on folks, I learned about HOF with JavaScript! It feels like some people want FP to fail just because

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· Apr 29, 2021

I just read that higher-order functions (HOFs) are "advanced Haskell" so now I'm wondering what language I've been writing in for so long because using and defining HOFs are a foundational building block for writing any reasonable application.

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@robotlolita

Apr 29, 2021

It's very curious that people don't say this about passing objects around in OOP languages, which is HOFs with added concepts on top. Since an object like "new class counter(x) { inc(): new counter(x + 1) }" is essentially: "counter x m = if m == inc then counter (x + 1)"