Haskell or Python!

Andrew J Bromage ajb at buzzword.cc.monash.edu.au
Thu Feb 3 21:39:58 EST 2000


G'day all.

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 06:10:41PM -0800, Paul Prescod wrote:

> The coolest thing about functional programming languages is the totally
> inscrutable terminology. Monads, gonads and lambda -- oh my!

As opposed to perfectly clear terminology like "xrange", "DEDENT"
and "pickle", you mean? :-)

> (one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just
> does not belong, if you....)

Wait... don't tell me... I know!  "Lambda" is supported in Python and
the others aren't, right?  What do I win?

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage




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