yet another noob question

[Steve Holden]

Jason Nordwick wrote:
> I use reduce to also do indexing, hashing with upsert semantics of lists of key-value pairs, transitioning through a state table, etc...
> 
> Somebody else pointed out to me how odd it is of Python to be ditching reduce when Guido van Rossum was hired by Google, and Google is literally built on map and reduce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapreduce).
> 

That seems a bit literal. Just because they use a tool called MapReduce 
that doesn't imply that thay chose to implement it with the Python map() 
and reduce() functions. It's a distributed application, in case you 
hadn't noticed ...

regards
  Steve
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