It's no secret that Guido has a little bit of a distaste for functional paradigms. From the man himself: "About 12 years ago, Python aquired lambda, reduce(),

It's no secret that Guido has a little bit of a distaste for functional paradigms. From the man himself: "About 12 years ago, Python aquired lambda, reduce(), filter() and map(), courtesy of (I believe) a Lisp hacker who missed them and submitted working patches. But, despite of the PR value, I think these features should be cut from Python 3000." http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196