Functions Of Functions Returning Functions

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 6:54:31 PM UTC+12, dieter wrote:
> Some time ago, we had a (quite heated) discussion here ...

I have noticed that people get very defensive about things they don’t understand.

> Often, functions returning functions are more difficult to understand
> than "first order" functions (those returning simple values only) --
> at least for people not familiar with higher abstraction levels.

Maybe if the alternative meant writing 200 extra lines of code (as in this case), they might feel differently...