On Mar 9, 12:47 pm, Tim Wintle <tim.win...@teamrubber.com> wrote: > My slight issue with this list that I think things are in too many > places. E.g. although you can do functional programming in Python (and > many do), I think it's worth trying to learn a language like lisp just > for the sake of forcing yourself to fully understand the paradigm.
By a curious accident, just today I was closing my cycle of posts about functional programming (http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=251159) with this note: """ The intention of this third cycle of Adventures was just to give a feeling of what does it mean to be a true functional language, versus being an imperative language with a few functional-looking constructs. """ Indeed Python is not a functional language and that if your goal is to learn the functional paradigm you should look at Haskell, ML or Scheme. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
