PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

[Paul Rubin]

Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:
> Don't worry - there will be a state transformation monad for you!
> 
> Nature or nurture?  it would be interesting to see some identical twin
> studies on novice programmers.  Since few of us were exposed first
> to strictly functional programming, though, you have to wonder.  In
> its day, goto was of course very well loved.

Guy Steele used to describe functional programming -- the evaluation
of lambda-calculus without side effects -- as "separation of Church
and state", a highly desirable situation ;-).

(For non-FP nerds, the above is a pun referring to Alonzo Church, who
invented lambda calculus in the 1920's or so).