a +b ?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Jun 16 22:37:08 EDT 2010


In article <a228f6fb-a97c-4c06-9676-37940cf1957b at e34g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
alex23  <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I've never used map/reduce outside of Python, this is where I first
>encountered it. And I _have_ worked in organisations alongside new
>Python coders. That it's easy enough to express both map & reduce in
>Python code helped a lot with explaining them.

And I am not particularly fond of map() and cordially loathe reduce().
Speaking as someone with more than twenty years of programming before
encountering Python more than a decade ago.
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