Combining your two questions -- Recently: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"
And earlier this On Sunday, August 4, 2013 10:00:35 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote: > If there is an issue in place for improving the lambda forms then that's > good. I wanted a link about functional programming because it is mentioned as > if it were a household word. Python is not a functional programming language; however it supports most of FP better than traditional languages like C/Java. eg with iterators/generators + itertools + functools you can do most of what lazy lists give in haskell Some discussion here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017621/why-isnt-python-very-good-for-functional-programming [Not everything said there is correct; eg python supports currying better than haskell which is surprising considering that Haskell's surname is Curry!] So if I may break your question into two: 1. Why should a programmer of a non-FP language know FP? 2. What in FP should a (any|all) programmer know? I touched upon these in two blog-posts: 1. http://blog.languager.org/2013/06/functional-programming-invades.html 2. http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/functional-programming-lost-booty.html Also most programmers without an FP background have a poor appreciation of the centrality of recursion in CS; see http://blog.languager.org/2012/05/recursion-pervasive-in-cs.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
