In practice, reading a for-loop has been less problematic for me than reading the incantations of a functional programmer who’s been reading about category theory.
I know all about the virtues of functional programming patterns, and use them in personal projects, but in my day job working with dozens of engineers in the same codebase, I appreciate not having to decode the idiosyncrasies of how each engineer decides when and how to use higher order constructs, and the subsequent performance, operational, and maintenance implications. It’s a lot easier for me to just read a for-loop and move on with my life.
I know all about the virtues of functional programming patterns, and use them in personal projects, but in my day job working with dozens of engineers in the same codebase, I appreciate not having to decode the idiosyncrasies of how each engineer decides when and how to use higher order constructs, and the subsequent performance, operational, and maintenance implications. It’s a lot easier for me to just read a for-loop and move on with my life.