Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > 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.
You mean like function pointers in C and C++? I think this should be possible in assembler, too. I thought functional languages have to be declarative? The boost C++ library has even lambdas! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
