Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Comrades, > > During our current discussion of the fate of functional constructs in > python, someone brought up Guido's bull on the matter: > > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 > > He says he's going to dispose of map, filter, reduce and lambda. He's > going to give us product, any and all, though, which is nice of him. > > What really struck me, though, is the last line of the abstract: > > "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?
Not. But I've gained a real appreciation for functional programming from my use of both C++ and Python. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
