map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientificmini-survey

[Terry Reedy]

"George Sakkis" <gsakkis at rutgers.edu> wrote in message 
news:1120610787.940292.15210 at g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Still it's hard to explain why four specific python keywords - def,
> del, exec and elif - were chosen to be abbreviated,

Precedence in other languages and CS usage?

> So, who would object the full-word versions for python 3K ?
> def -> define
> del -> delete
> exec -> execute

These three I might prefer to keep.

> elif -> else if

This one I dislike and would prefer to write out.  I never liked it in 
whatever else language I first encountered it and still don't.

Terry J. Reedy