Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.112 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.78; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'python': 0.11; 'subject:Programming': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'programming': 0.22; 'email addr:gmail.com>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'sort': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; 'to:2**1': 0.27; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'url:python': 0.33; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'programming,': 0.36; 'subject:one': 0.36; 'url:listinfo': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'functional': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'users': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'subject:Can': 0.60; 'more': 0.64; 'love': 0.65; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'phone': 0.66; 'sam': 0.68; 'mail.': 0.69 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:subject :from:date:to:message-id; bh=IQ6v42QMbPma42YnsZW5FJff92Z0OAE65OcRP/rfufA=; b=oB2ryDk2Uvp3lRIKoJYApCkS+f1LL8g2FCLNjMbsUefVsLvE/Jduyxu11qRIIOG3r1 o/DaR1o31qrT0AAaTeippZsD98SATASN1MzuqlJO6DZKP6/gG2Pyh2Pt1LPXSzUNqU0s DXS8ERu8q6rC4f3BNJt1pg5fuwnq2DlPacBVHvBuiNo0Sq0ThS3Yz/+ktPh7lAxRz16g TOxYWwdaPV18VdXmnVg4zSUgvKweVgT2azHbiSjanQOghkRZ0g+Z7m2ahmgAzPRo/s2s T3YjUAsvU8SUWNvngAaCToEke8IkXM7NOqYcomhqskQQCX56MhJW5H0U+/6e41T4Arp8 bDtg== X-Received: by 10.182.233.201 with SMTP id ty9mr16687466obc.29.1392563494215; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 07:11:34 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <3fd33e3a-7774-4988-b725-4fed5472ac94@googlegroups.com> References: <3fd33e3a-7774-4988-b725-4fed5472ac94@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----FVYVW6OGPIMWGPCNQVE57Z1Z1T7N6Y" Subject: Re: Can one use Python to learn and even apply Functional Programming? From: Ryan Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:11:42 -0600 To: Sam ,python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1392563496 news.xs4all.nl 2910 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57966 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:66543 ------FVYVW6OGPIMWGPCNQVE57Z1Z1T7N6Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Python*can* do functional programming, but, for learning, Haskell will work better. Sam wrote: >I would like to learn and try out functional programming (FP). I love >Python and would like to use it to try FP. Some have advised me to use >Haskell instead because Python is not a good language for FP. I am sort >of confused at the moment. Is Python a dysfunctional programming >language to apply FP? Can the more experienced Python users advise? >-- >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ------FVYVW6OGPIMWGPCNQVE57Z1Z1T7N6Y Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Python*can* do functional programming, but, for learning, Haskell will work better.

Sam <lightaiyee@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to learn and try out functional programming (FP). I love Python and would like to use it to try FP. Some have advised me to use Haskell instead because Python is not a good language for FP. I am sort of confused at the moment. Is Python a dysfunctional programming language to apply FP? Can the more experienced Python users advise?

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