On 10/24/06, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Ben Tilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:12:53 -0700 > > On 10/24/06, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:01:39 -0400 > > > > . . . > > > > Guido made comparisons to Perl only in two areas - saying he likes > > generators and iterators better than continuations, and essentially > > saying he prefers the aesthetics of Python over Perl. > > > > That's really odd. I was once told (by a fellow Lisp refugee) that > > Python is the favorite "new" language of Lisp programmers because it has > > similar semantics. I wonder if that situation will change when Perl 6 > > comes out; it is clear from the perl6-language list that Larry has drunk > > deeply of the functional programming wine. FWIW. > > Ironically Guido has very much NOT drunk of the functional programming > wine. To be specific, he dislikes anonymous functions and closures, > which is one of the reasons that Python's support for them is not > great. (And he removed some of the support they have.) > > Cheers, > Ben > > Thank you for the additional bits. Now I don't feel so bad about not > having noshed more on the Python cheese & crackers.
Well I may have left you with an overly bad impression. While support for them is not great, you can get them to work. Lots of people have done so. And he has lots of other functional bits. (eg lots of stuff with list comprehensions.) So depending on which things you wanted to reach for, you might find Python very friendly. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
