Python's simplicity philosophy

[Andrew Dalke]

Terry Reedy:
> Perhaps my career in statistics and data reduction made reduce() more
> immediately obvious to me than some other people.

I know when I first saw reduce, in Python BTW, I did not
intuit that meaning.  I was in physics grad school and
with a bachelor's in math, with an emphasis in analysis, so
my math background was pretty strong.  (Though nowadays
I look through my books and wonder that I actual knew
all that once upon a time...  *sigh*)

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com