Why functional Python matters

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Tj wrote:
> Lambda could also stand renaming;
> Pythonistas probably think it's an arrogant name.  (Or exotic?  I
> can't tell.)

Actually, we think it's kind of cute.

   Mary had a little lambda,
   Its syntax white as snow,
   And every program Mary wrote,
   She wrote in Lisp, you know.

Although nowadays she's probably using Python instead.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg