On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 6:27:24 AM UTC+5:30, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 12:19 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > And how do you write even the simplest assignment statement without a > > (mathematical) expression on the rhs? > > name = other_name > > is not a mathematical expression. Its giving something a new name. > > name = obj.attribute > > is not a mathematical expression. (That's not a dot product.) >
Ok you win (that) [And I see your stocks of straw are overflowing. Wholesale prices?] > > > > What were Turing, Church, von Neumann, even Knuth by training? > > Mathematicians > > or CS-ists? > > > > And what are the contributions of Turing, Church, von Neumann, Knuth to CS? > > Who cares? We're talking about Python, not Computer Science. He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it. Start with your own statement: “Lisp is a functional language” And see the history a little bit more http://blog.languager.org/2015/04/cs-history-1.html 1960 : McCarthy got the idea of functional programming from an earlier invention of a certain Backus called 'The Formula Translator' which would later shorten to ForTran 1980s: The functional programming community was decrying lisp: "Success of lisp set back the development of functional programming by 10 years" And most significant: “McCarthy did not consider Lisp to be a functional language” Of course nothing to be surprised here: You know more java than old java-heads And more lisp than John McCarthy 😉 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
