Functional way to compare things inside a list

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

[ Ian Kelly wrote on Sat 22.Sep'12 at  0:22:43 -0600 ]

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:49:55 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, 88888 Dihedral
> >> <dihedral88888 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> I don't think functional aspects are only marked as lazy programming.
> >>
> >> He wrote "lazy evaluation", not "lazy programming".  Two entirely
> >> different things.
> >
> >
> > For the record, the consensus here is that 88888 Dihedral is probably a
> > bot. It appears to be a pretty good bot, I haven't spotted it making any
> > egregious or obvious grammatical mistakes, but the semantics of its posts
> > don't seem quite human.
> 
> I'm aware of that, although sometimes the posts seem coherent enough
> that I think maybe it's not.  Especially the ones where it posts
> almost-working code snippets, complete with obvious typos.
> 
> Then it posts a complete non sequitur like the reply to my reply in
> this thread, and the illusion is shattered.

I find this intriguing, I had no idea bots existed to post to mailing
lists in this way. What's the point of them?