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Re:Homogenization of scientific computing – Python is eating... by bnolsen on Thursday January 09, 2014 @03:26PM (#7032946)
smashing tons of crap together isn't necessarily "highly proficient". In some cases it makes things harder to read and/or harder to maintain and many times certainly harder to edit.
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Re:Homogenization of scientific computing – Python is eating... by eeshanC on Friday January 10, 2014 @02:40AM (#7035567)
True that. But there is also another side to this story, where such nested calls translates naturally to what we are thinking, i.e.

length(unique(text)) comes from the thought "How many(length()) unique (unique()) words are there in this text(text)?"

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