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You can do functional programming in Python, but it's not pleasant. Python lacks a lot of functional niceties - first-class composition, first-class immutable d

by yen223 9y ago

You can do functional programming in Python, but it's not pleasant. Python lacks a lot of functional niceties - first-class composition, first-class immutable data structures, tail-call optimisation and multiline lambdas

xapata 9y ago
On the contrary, I find it quite pleasant despite (or because of) those facts. Multi-line lambdas I'm particularly glad to be rid of.