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Functional Programming and python

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Date 2013-09-22 19:21 -0700
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Subject Functional Programming and python
From rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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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

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Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-03 10:53 -0700
  Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-03 14:23 -0400
  Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-03 16:43 -0400
    Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-04 09:30 -0700
      Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-04 14:34 -0400
        Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-20 07:22 -0700
          Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-20 10:57 -0400
      Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-22 19:21 -0700
        Re: Functional Programming and python Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-09-23 20:24 +0200
          Re: Functional Programming and python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-09-24 10:06 +0300
          Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 00:08 -0700
            Re: Functional Programming and python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-09-24 10:42 +0300
              Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 05:14 -0700
                Re: Functional Programming and python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-09-24 17:51 +0300
                Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 08:07 -0700
                Re: Functional Programming and python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 01:26 +1000
                Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 10:25 -0700
        Re: Functional Programming and python Franck Ditter <nobody@nowhere.org> - 2013-09-30 19:04 +0200
          Re: Functional Programming and python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-01 03:17 +1000
          Re: Functional Programming and python Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-30 18:36 +0000
            Re: Functional Programming and python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-01 00:14 +0000
              Re: Functional Programming and python Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-10-01 13:59 +0000
          Re: Functional Programming and python Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-09-30 14:55 -0400
            Re: Functional Programming and python Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-30 22:37 +0200
              Re: Functional Programming and python Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-10-01 13:31 -0400
          Re: Functional Programming and python Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-30 20:29 +0200
          Re: Functional Programming and python Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-30 16:02 -0500
          Re: Functional Programming and python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-01 00:41 +0000
          Re: Functional Programming and python alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-10-01 11:03 +1000
          Re: Functional Programming and python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-30 21:03 -0400
            Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-30 18:36 -0700
              Re: Functional Programming and python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-01 17:28 +1000

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