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		pdeuchler on July 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Golang Diaries II Of course. If the main cornerstone of your project is map it's probably not the greatest idea to use Go, but if you're using Go for other reasons and happen to need a quick map function there's no reason to change languages just because Go doesn't have a standard library implementation

bad_user on July 16, 2013 [–]

But then it's pretty odd to use Go because you like the language, while not being able to design a proper map().

And map() btw is only the tip of the iceberg in functional programming. But then again, Go is not a functional programming language.

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