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Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic?

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Anthony Kong wrote:

> So I have picked this topic for one of my presentation. It is because
> functional programming technique is one of my favorite in my bag  of python trick.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to emphasise functional
programming too much. Python doesn't really lend itself
to a heavily functional style. While you *can* write
Python code that way, it's not idiomatic, and you're
likely to give beginners a distorted idea of how Python
is normally written.

-- 
Greg

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Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic? Anthony Kong <anthony.hw.kong@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 05:39 -0700
  Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic? gene heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2011-07-13 09:41 -0400
  Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic? J Kenneth King <james@agentultra.com> - 2011-07-13 09:50 -0400
  Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-13 12:29 -0400
  Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 11:09 -0600
  Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if   you have an hour on this topic? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-07-14 15:32 +1200
    Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if   you have an hour on this topic? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-14 14:05 +1000
    Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic? Jonathan Hartley <tartley@tartley.com> - 2011-07-14 03:33 -0700
  Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic? Jonathan Hartley <tartley@tartley.com> - 2011-07-14 03:31 -0700

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