On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Sam <lightai...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to learn and try out functional programming (FP). I love Python > and would like to use it to try FP. Some have advised me to use Haskell > instead because Python is not a good language for FP. I am sort of confused > at the moment. Is Python a dysfunctional programming language to apply FP? > Can the more experienced Python users advise? >
Functional programming is a particular style. Python supports some of that style, but it certainly doesn't enforce it; if you want to learn how to work within a functional style, you'd do better with a language that won't let you do anything else. Python does have a number of extremely handy notations, borrowed from more functional languages. But it's not a functional language, primarily. It's what you might call "multi-paradigm" [1], but primarily imperative and object-oriented (everything's an object). ChrisA [1] My buzzword limiter is starting to smoke -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
