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Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data?

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On 2014-10-02, cl@isbd.net <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> > On Oct 1, 2014, at 04:12, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
>> > 
>> > `lambda` is just a fancy way to define a function inline
>> 
>> Not sure "fancy" is the correct adjective; more like syntactic tartness 
>> (a less sweet version of syntactic sugar). 
>> 
> It throws me because 'lambda' simply has no meaning whatsoever for me,
> i.e. it's just a greek letter.
>
> So from my point of view it's like seeing 'epsilon' stuck in the
> middle of some code. 
>
> It's not as if I'm new to programming either, I've been writing
> software professionally since the early 1970s, now retired.

The use of "lamba" as a keyword to define an anonymous function is
borrowed from Lisp which got it from Lambda calculus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus

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How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-01 10:58 +0100
  Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-01 12:24 +0200
    Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-01 11:45 +0100
      Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-10-01 06:56 -0400
        Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-01 13:16 +0100
      Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-01 13:12 +0200
      Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2014-10-01 21:57 -0700
        Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-02 10:40 +0100
          Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-02 14:17 +0300
            Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 10:46 -0700
          Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-02 14:05 +0000
            Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-02 17:33 +0100
              Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 13:15 -0600
              Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-02 19:36 +0000
              Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 13:06 -0700
                Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-03 09:16 +1000
                Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-03 12:44 +1000
                Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-03 07:55 +0000
                Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-03 18:09 +1000
              Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-03 07:01 +1000
  Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-01 11:27 +0100
  Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-10-01 06:37 -0400
    Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-01 13:19 +0100

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