On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Arun SAG <sagarun at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon at thenilgiris.com>wrote:
?>lambda is not considered pythonic (by guido anyway)According to paul graham most of the "modern" languages are created by
borrowing concepts from lisp.
In his own words ( http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html)
If you look at these languages in order, Java, Perl, Python, you notice anyes, lambda was borrowed from lisp and it is not pythonic.
interesting pattern. At least, you notice this pattern if you are a Lisp
hacker. Each one is progressively more like Lisp. Python copies even
features that many Lisp hackers consider to be mistakes. You could translate
simple Lisp programs into Python line for line. It's 2002, and programming
languages have almost caught up with 1958.
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