On Jul 14, 4:32 am, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Anthony Kong wrote: > > So I have picked this topic for one of my presentation. It is because > > functional programming technique is one of my favorite in my bag of python > > trick. > > I'm not sure it's a good idea to emphasise functional > programming too much. Python doesn't really lend itself > to a heavily functional style. While you *can* write > Python code that way, it's not idiomatic, and you're > likely to give beginners a distorted idea of how Python > is normally written. > > -- > Greg
Maybe the talk would work well if not aimed at complete all-round beginners, but instead aimed at Pythonistas who are interested in functional programming, or functionistas who are py-curious (I think the same talk would work well for both groups) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
