In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > * you seem to disregard the fact that in 'programming language' there > is the word 'language'. A language is a way to _communicate_ > information, in the case of a programming language you communicate > it to the computer but also to other human beings.
It was Niklaus Wirth, I think who pointed out that programming languages are not properly "languages" but are actually "notations". Like mathematics is a notation. And mathematics, too, is a predominantly functional, not a procedural, notation. Could that be why so many people are frightened of functional constructs, like my code example and things like lambdas? Because they look too much like mathematics? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
