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

[Robert Kern]

Dan Bishop wrote:

> There's also the issue of having to rewrite old code.

It's Python 3000. You will have to rewrite old code regardless if reduce 
stays.

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Robert Kern
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