Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Paul Rubin:
> Steve Howell <showell30 at yahoo.com> writes:
>> My gut instinct is that functional programming works well for lots of
>> medium sized problems and it is worth learning.
> 
> I think it's worth learning because it will make you a better programmer
> even if you never use it for anything beyond academic exercises.  It's
> just like playing Bach fugues in some of your practice hours will make
> you a better musician even if you are professionally a heavy metal rock
> guitarist.

Uhm, Paganini...

As I understand it he invented the "destroy your instruments on stage". :-)


Cheers,

- Alf (off-topic)