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For the most part, I agree with this post. But I can't agree with saying that Python is a functional language. It very much encourages imperative programming, and it's difficult not to with the "extra features" you mention. I think it's best to refer to Python as "functional lite" as you did in the other post. :-)

Jason Baker
– Jason Baker

2009-06-19 14:00:22 +00:00
Commented Jun 19, 2009 at 14:00
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-1 Sorry, no. I mean, just, no. Functional languages provide constructs that facilitate formal reasoning: inductive (ML), equational (Haskell). Closures and anonymous functions alone are just syntactic sugar for the strategy pattern.

isekaijin
– isekaijin

2013-12-09 02:42:45 +00:00
Commented Dec 9, 2013 at 2:42

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