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		spacemanaki on Nov 29, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) Map isn't really an "odd bit of Python" that you ran into, it's a bit of Lisp.

jlees on Nov 29, 2010 [–]

Actually, I know it from ML. I was more smiling at it existing in Python, than Python having 'invented' it.

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