Python's simplicity philosophy

[Robin Becker]

In article <17lsb.109042$fl1.4548960 at twister.southeast.rr.com>, Georgy
Pruss <SEE_AT_THE_END at hotmail.com> writes
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>"Michele Simionato" <mis6 at pitt.edu> wrote in message news:2259b0e2.0311112248.3b
>e2d304 at posting.google.com...
>| <...>
>| in which the sequence goes *before* the operator. It is interesting to
>| notice that somebody recently suggested in the Scheme newsgroup that
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>| (map function sequence)
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>| was a bad idea and that
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>| (map sequence function)
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>| would be better!
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>| <...>
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>Yes, that's right. Some scientific studies proved that humans think and
>express their thoughts in order subject/object-action. So OOP is very
>"human" in this aspect, btw.
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>G-:
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on oop in this thread nobody has pointed out that we could have

sequence.sum()
sequence.reduce(operator.add[,init])

or even

sequence.filter(func) etc etc

and similar. That would make these frighteningly incomprehensible ;)
concepts seem less like functional programming. Personally I wouldn't
like that to happen.
-- 
Robin Becker