map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientific mini-survey

[Tom Anderson]

Comrades,

During our current discussion of the fate of functional constructs in 
python, someone brought up Guido's bull on the matter:

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196

He says he's going to dispose of map, filter, reduce and lambda. He's 
going to give us product, any and all, though, which is nice of him.

What really struck me, though, is the last line of the abstract:

"I expect tons of disagreement in the feedback, all from ex-Lisp-or-Scheme 
folks. :-)"

I disagree strongly with Guido's proposals, and i am not an ex-Lisp, 
-Scheme or -any-other-functional-language programmer; my only other real 
language is Java. I wonder if i'm an outlier.

So, if you're a pythonista who loves map and lambda, and disagrees with 
Guido, what's your background? Functional or not?

tom

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