Why functional Python matters

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Fri Apr 18 12:30:57 EDT 2003


"laotseu" <bdesth at removethis.free.fr> wrote ...
> Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) wrote:
> > Tj wrote:
> >
> >> Lambda could also stand renaming;
> >> Pythonistas probably think it's an arrogant name.  (Or exotic?  I
> >> can't tell.)
> >
> >
> > Actually, we think it's kind of cute.
> >
> >   Mary had a little lambda,
> >   Its syntax white as snow,
> >   And every program Mary wrote,
> >   She wrote in Lisp, you know.
>
> lol !-)
>
This *finally* gives me the chance to ask: when a lambda grows up, does it
become a sheepda?

regards
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