cognitive psychology. PhD 
Goguen, “Higher Order Functions Considered Unnecessary for Higher Order Programming.” 1987
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Agree. First order generically typed functions are the sweet spot of power vs simplicity.
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So map reduce isn't inside that sweet spot?
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1987... when OOP was cool.
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Ironically, the languages I know if with the best support for abstract-algebra-style parameterization over modules of related functions are... ML and Haskell, both higher order functional.
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And of course all them languages that let you *do* abstract algebra are similarly higher-order functional. You can argue that this is a historical accident, but higher-order functions seem pretty necessary for stuff like representation theory.
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