why tar is strange

[Edward S. Vinyard]

On 23 May 2000, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>I never used that. 'for' loops are generally more clean and more
>extensible in Python. I only find myself using map() rarely, filter()
>even more rarely, and reduce() hardly at all. Of course your mileage may
>vary.

How are 'for' loops more extensible in Python?

Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:
>> Besides map, Python has lots of built-in functions emboding concepts
>> which aren't familiar to me as an experienced C/C++ programmer, for
>> example:  map, reduce, lambda, filter, etc.

map, reduce, and filter have equivalents in the STL.

>I think Guido's idea here is you shouldn't use those a lot anyway. It's
>said he rather regrets adding 'lambda' to the language, after all.  Not
>that this kind of functional programming can't be fun.

Why should we avoid these functions?

Thanks,
Ed