map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientific mini-survey

[Peter Hansen]

Sean McIlroy wrote:
> personally i don't know lisp (or scheme), but now i've
> decided to learn it, because eventually it will no longer be possible
> in python to pass functions as arguments or return them as values. the
> education sig will have to change its motto to "computer programming
> for every C-programmer". 

Huh?  Where did that come from?  Functions are objects in Python and 
I've not heard the least discussion about this being changed, until now.

Sean, what gave you the impression this would change?

-Peter