can Python be useful as functional?

[Robin Becker]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Lorenzo Stella wrote:
......
> So, which environment do you habitually use that provides an *unlimited* 
> stack?
> 
> You remind me of the conversation between the philosopher and an 
> attractive lady whom he was seated next to at dinner. He asked her if 
> she would sleep with him for a million dollars, to which she readily 
> agreed. So he followed this by asking her if she'd sleep with him for a 
> dollar. She replied: "No. Do you take me for a prostitutte?", to which 
> his riposte was "We have already established that fact, and are now 
> merely haggling about the price".
> 

allegedly G B Shaw 
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19980925/ai_n14182408)
-- 
Robin Becker