On 2014-02-16, 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?
I recommend Scheme to learn functional programming style. There's a short scheme tutorial that was entered in the Interactive Fiction competition in 1998 or so. You can play it online here, and try out functional programming on a scheme interepreter implemented in Inform and running on a Z-machine interpreter written in javascript. It was *my* first introduction to functional programming. http://www.eblong.com/zarf/if.html#lists I purchased and really enjoyed Simply Scheme as a followup to that mind-bending experience. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html I wouldn't recommend trying to learn anything at the same time as learning Haskell. ;) -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
