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> I guess they believe functional programming does not help with code readability. What does that statement say more about, the Python community or the readabi

• jamongkad 17y ago
  I think it's a little bit of both. Functional style in languages such as Scheme, Lisp and the like tend to nest functions. Which makes readability a bit hard, which goes against the design goal of Python in the first place.
  • tmoertel 17y ago
    > Functional style in languages such as Scheme, Lisp and the like tend to nest functions. Which makes readability a bit hard, ... Hard for whom? People unskilled in functional programming? People skilled only in the English language find Greek "a bit hard", too. This truth is so well established that it forms the heart of a colloquial expression, one used to confess a speaker's inability to understand a subject in general: "It's all Greek to me!" And yet I trust that you haven't fallen into the trap of thinking that this expression, no matter how much it is repeated by English-language speakers, reflects poorly on the Greek language, itself. The ancient Greeks, after all, didn't seem to have any difficulty using their language to great effect, and with remarkable clarity.