Why functional Python matters

Henrik Motakef henrik.motakef at web.de
Thu Apr 17 08:45:20 EDT 2003


laotseu <bdesth at removethis.free.fr> writes:

> Lispers friends, let's have you're opinion on that point : is Common
> Lisp a functionnal language ?

Common Lisp is whatever you want it to be: You can write
functional-style programs in it if you want, but is certainly not a
"pure" functional language. It supports several other paradigms
equally well, and even more important, it will let you integrate
yet-unkown paradigms when you think that they are useful.

There are really ideas to remove the functional stuff from Python? I
wonder why people frequently think that making things impossible will
improve programming languages.

just-because-it's-flexible-doesn't-mean-it's-perl-ly y'rs
Henrik




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