Michele Simionato wrote:
On Mar 9, 12:47 pm, Tim Wintle <tim.win...@teamrubber.com> wrote:
My slight issue with this list that I think things are in too many
places.
Yeah, that issue did pass through my head when I posted it, but I was
too lazy to do proper listing of various language from various
paradigms. I thought if he is really interested in a paradigm, he should
find the entry for the paradigm in google or wikipedia to get more
insight and example language.
E.g. although you can do functional programming in Python (and
many do), I think it's worth trying to learn a language like lisp just
for the sake of forcing yourself to fully understand the paradigm.
By a curious accident, just today I was closing my cycle of posts
about functional
programming (http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=251159)
with this note:
"""
The intention of this third cycle of Adventures was just to give a
feeling of what does it mean to be a true functional language, versus
being an imperative language with a few functional-looking constructs.
"""
Indeed Python is not a functional language and that if your goal is to
learn
the functional paradigm you should look at Haskell, ML or Scheme.
Definitely.
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