Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Thant Tessman]

Raffael Cavallaro wrote:

> [...] Actually, I think that any anonymous function syntax is undesirable. I 
> think code is inerently more readable when functions are named, 
> preferably in a descriptive fashion. [...]

Before the invention of higher-level languages like Fortran, the 
programmer was burdened with the task of naming every intermediate value 
in the calculation of an expression. A programmer accustomed to the 
functional style finds the need in non-FP languages to name every 
function analogously awkward.

-thant

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