Would Anonymous Functions Help in Learning Programming/Python?

Carl Banks pavlovevidence at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 04:51:31 EDT 2007


On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:38:38 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> writes:
>> Especially someone like an
>> engineer (in the classical sense), who isn't building versatile
>> software packages, won't need to resort to functional programming much.
> 
> http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html

>From the link:

"Abstract
As software..."

That's it, lost me already.  You ever see the kinds of programs 
mechanical engineers write?  It isn't software.


Carl Banks



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