I would imagine it depend on what extreme you take it to. You don't have pattern matching or tail recursion, which make certain styles impossible. There's a mu

I would imagine it depend on what extreme you take it to. You don't have pattern matching or tail recursion, which make certain styles impossible. There's a much better discussion over here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017621/why-isnt-python-very-good-for-functional-programming http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017621/why-isnt-python-v...