From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-01-14T07:09:22+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the difference between inject and reduce methods

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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > They are the same, I think the names are just to make people from
> different
> > languages feel at home. I think "inject" is from Smalltalk, and "reduce"
> is
> > from Common Lisp, and IIRC "fold" is from Scheme and Haskell.
> >
> > Interestingly, at the last RubyConf, Aaron Patterson and Rein Henrichs
> were
> > giving their presentations simultaneously, in different rooms, and both
> of
> > them criticized the use of this method :P
> >
>
>
> http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2010/11/26/how-arlo-got-injected-into-ruby
>
>
Hah, I went and listened to that song, it was awesome!

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