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Python certainly makes some of the tasks so simple as to be moot. But some people try to bend a new language to match what they're used to.

For example, R is a statistical programming language where almost all data structures and operations are for vectors or arrays. But it's not unusual to see people on StackOverflow or blogs reinventing wheels like map/reduce/filter with for loops. I agree it's just inexperience that led to it, but the "intended" way is still idiomatic.




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