Python's simplicity philosophy

[Ville Vainio]

Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> writes:

> Well, bah!  There are precious few constructs in this world that are
> clearer and more readable than
> 
>    reduce(add, seq)

I asked my non-programmer girlfriend what she thinks your construct
does - she didn't know. She immediately understood what sum(seq) does.

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Ville Vainio   http://www.students.tut.fi/~vainio24