In article <a228f6fb-a97c-4c06-9676-37940cf19...@e34g2000pra.googlegroups.com>, alex23 <wuwe...@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. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
