On Feb 23, 1:03 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: > > Uhm, Paganini... > > As I understand it he invented the "destroy your instruments on stage". :-) > > Cheers, > > - Alf (off-topic)
You probably meant Franz Liszt, who regularly broke piano strings. Paganini was also a "rock-star" virtuoso but he did not destroy any Guarnerius or Stradivarius violins in his possession (at least not to anyone's knowledge :) As for functional programming, different people take it to mean different things. For some, simply using first-class functions qualifies as functional programming. Others require their functions to be pure so that their call graphs can be automatically reduced and their results can be lazily evaluated. If you takes the former view, most Python programmers already do functional programming :p --aht -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
