Extending Python Syntax with @

[Cameron Laird]

In article <tPQ3c.37431$6y1.1205127 at news20.bellglobal.com>,
Pierre Rouleau  <prouleau at impathnetworks.com> wrote:
>David MacQuigg wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:28:47 -0000, claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird)
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>> I guess this reflects our different backgrounds.  I've been an
>> electronic design engineer for many years.  I never heard of lambda's
>> or lambda calculus until learning Python, and the name still doesn't
>> evoke much meaning for me.  I've never used APL, J, or Perl.  I wonder
>> how many technical professionals who are *not* programmers would know
>> what a lambda is?  I wonder if Python is becoming more a language for
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>I was trained as an EE myself and started programming in assembler on 
>microprocessors, then in C , then in C++, reading, reading, reading,....
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>Just the mere fact that you are talking about lambda shows that you know 
>what it is, as I do now and as people learning Python will know when 
>they use it.  They'll learn, that why they are technical professionals, no?
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For more on what lambda means to me, and others, see
<URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeFP/Lambda/Ch/00.Intro.html >
or
<URL: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.07/07.05/LambdaCalculus/ >
or
<URL: http://www.alcyone.com/software/church/ > or ...
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