> Why is this a meaningful distinction? Who cares if it's server or client side in this discussion? It doesn't really matter, except that the browser's dominan

> Why is this a meaningful distinction? Who cares if it's server or client side in this discussion? It doesn't really matter, except that the browser's dominance as client-side platform is the cause of JavaScript's current ascendancy, rather than programming language design decisions of any sort. This is a refutation of the claim that you made saying "the last 5 years of software development and the remarkable growth of Javascript" make a compelling case that van Rossum is wrong about multiline anonymous functions in Python. Classic post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. If you're going to stick by the argument that somehow the support of anonymous functions is responsible for JavaScript's recent successes with respect to Python in terms of adoption and pace of development, then you'll have to explain why Lisp didn't take the world by storm when they were introduced nearly sixty years ago. Or, of course, admit that whether or not a particular programming language conforms to your personal preferences has relatively little bearing on the success of that programming language in the world at large.