[Tutor] Re: List Comprehensions again

[Glen Wheeler]

>
> On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 06:20  PM, dman wrote:
>
> > lambda is most often used in conjunction with map/filter/reduce, and
> > the whole lot comes from the "functional" programming style (embodied
> > in LISP, Scheme, and the ML family of languages).
>
> Is this style of programming different from "procedural" and "object
> oriented" programming styles?  I haven't read about it before, although
> I have read of the difference between procedural and object oriented
> styles.
>

  Yup.  This is called Functional Programming - I'd check out Alan's tutor
for more info on that, a link can be found in one of his recent posts to
this list.

  Good luck!
  Glen