the thing that's odd to me is that you could write this exact same post about other languages - a person who learns Haskell ends up writing that exact same range/reduce/plus statement. Modern lisps like Racket or Clojure take you there. Forth programmers and Joy programmers already noticed that their two languages had converged: and they'd write basically exactly this, too. Really, it's only the "mainstream" languages that are different!
A Common Lisp programmer would write it like that too. He would then disassemble the function, run away in terror and eventually come back to rewrite the whole thing with a more efficient loop expression.
That's an interesting take on things. Another one would be that ~40-50 million programmers do things one way and ~10000 (totally random guess) do it another way :-)
