[Python-ideas] Does jargon make learning more difficult?

[Greg Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> The only difference between dict and lambda is time.

Well, "more arbitrary" was perhaps a rather loose way of saying
it. What I meant was that the chain of associations is shorter
for "lambda" than for "s-expression", because the "s" refers
to a word the reader is probably already familiar with, but
"lambda" doesn't refer to anything pre-existing that's
semantically related.

Not that there's anything wrong with that -- mathematicians
love to endlessly re-use the same rather small set of symbols,
so sometimes they have to make a completely arbitrary choice.

-- 
Greg