>>16
map and reduce have been staple components of Lisp hackers' personal toolkits and libraries, if not a core part of the language.
std::transform and std::accumulate are and have always been core parts of the C++ language, you ignorant nyasha.
We are talking about the
parallel versions.
>>17 not as such of course, the "Reduce" in MapReduce actually reduces a Monoid. But I was afraid to assault feeble minds of our resident lispers with this additional complication. After all, they all suffer from a severe case of Blub paradox (complicated by the fact that they are fully aware of it but still believe themselves to be at the apex of the hierarchy, objectively).