Mathias Panzenboeck a écrit : > Rob Thorpe wrote: > >>Mathias Panzenboeck wrote: >> >>>Mark Tarver wrote: >>> >>>>How do you compare Python to Lisp? What specific advantages do you >>>>think that one has over the other? >>>> >>>>Note I'm not a Python person and I have no axes to grind here. This is >>>>just a question for my general education. >>>> >>>>Mark >>>> >>> >>>I do not know much about Lisp. What I know is: >>>Python is a imperative, object oriented dynamic language with duck typing, >> >>Yes, but Python also supports the functional style to some extent. >> > > > I currently visit a course about functional programming at the university of > technology vienna: > python implements only a small subset of things needed to be called a > functional language (list > comprehension).
Python has functions as first-class objects (you can pass functions as arguments to functions, return functions from functions, and bind functions to identifiers), and that's the only thing you need to use a functional approach. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
