Hi All-- Tom Anderson wrote: > > Comrades, > > "I expect tons of disagreement in the feedback, all from ex-Lisp-or-Scheme > folks. :-)" > > I disagree strongly with Guido's proposals, and i am not an ex-Lisp, > -Scheme or -any-other-functional-language programmer; my only other real > language is Java. I wonder if i'm an outlier. > > So, if you're a pythonista who loves map and lambda, and disagrees with > Guido, what's your background? Functional or not? >
I'm a pythonista who doesn't love them. In fact, even though I've done more than my fair share of lambda Tkinter programming using lambdas, I've never been happy with lambda. And I've spent months inside of Lisp/Emacs Lisp/Scheme, too (I have the world's second largest .emacs file [my friend Andy Glew has the largest], even though I can't use it on Windows;-). I find list comprehensions easier to understand than map, and small named functions or, better yet, class methods, *tons* easier to read/understand than lambda--there are too many restrictions you have to remember. Personally, I find that Lisp & its derivatives put your head in a very weird place. Even weirder than PostScript/Forth/RPN, when you come right down to it. I won't miss them, but since I don't use them now, that doesn't mean a whole lot. Metta, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
