If there was a different name we could give programmers, it would be Data Massager. Essentially, that is all we do. Our apps receive data from a source, be it a web service or some local database, and then we transform that data into user interfaces where we can collect more information and then send it back to the source. There is even an acronym for this – Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD).
Throughout your life as a programmer, you will spend most of your time writing CRUD code. It doesn't matter if you are working with 3D graphics or training machine learning models – CRUD will consume the majority of your life.
Being able to manipulate mass quantities of data quickly, your standard control flows, along with your repertoire of do, while, and for loops isn't going to cut it. Instead, we should use higher-order functions, one of the primary aspects of functional programming, to help us get to the fun stuff faster.
