I write a lot of C++, and nothing about a standard algorithm loop is hard to read or maintain. For the Python or C++ guru both are trivial to work with. If I

I write a lot of C++, and nothing about a standard algorithm loop is hard to read or maintain. For the Python or C++ guru both are trivial to work with. If I were doing fancy conditional transforms on maps with non-trivial modifications (ie, string manipulation) I'd almost always try to use Python first, though.