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==Language comparison==

The map function is especially common in [[functional programming]] languages, but some [[high-level programming language|high-level]] [[procedural programming|procedural]] languages support it as well, and in others it may be defined. [[Common Lisp]] provides a whole family of map-like functions. The one that corresponds to the behaviour described here is called <code>mapcar</code>. In [[C++]]'s standard[[Standard libraryTemplate Library]], the map function is called <code>transform</code>.

==Haskell's Functor class==