What to do after Python?

[bowman]

Johann Hibschman <johann at physics.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
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>
> as the right way to square a vector is, well, not quite the way I'd
> want to do that.  Personally, I prefer something like
>
> (map-into (make-vector (length vec))
>           #'(lambda (x) (* x x))
>           vec)

that looks quite verbose too. my APL is incredibly rusty, but I think about
5 characters  would do the job. :)