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:: The point is to demonstrate functional uses of Python, on which there is an established literature, and which meets the needs of particular contexts. If it resembles Haskell to you, that is because all functional programming, with any interpreter or compiler, is mathematically constrained by the same necessities of functional composition, and this leads to common use, across many languages, of shared generic abstractions. |
:: The point is to demonstrate functional uses of Python, on which there is an established literature, and which meets the needs of particular contexts. If it resembles Haskell to you, that is because all functional programming, with any interpreter or compiler, is mathematically constrained by the same necessities of functional composition, and this leads to common use, across many languages, of shared generic abstractions. |
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::By default, names for these abstractions tend to be taken, in many languages, including Python, from the Haskell/ML tradition, which simply happens to be the main idiom of the academic research in functional programming. The name of Python's '''dropwhile''' function is an example, as explained at the top of the Python itertools module documentation. |
::By default, names for these abstractions tend to be taken, in many languages, including Python, from the Haskell/ML tradition, which simply happens to be the main idiom of the academic research in functional programming. The name of Python's '''dropwhile''' function is an example, as explained at the top of the Python itertools module documentation. |
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You can safely leave it alone. No need for deletionary zeal. Like it or not, functional programming is one of the ways in which Python interpreters and compilers are used. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 08:15, 27 October 2018 (UTC) |
::You can safely leave it alone. No need for deletionary zeal. Like it or not, functional programming is one of the ways in which Python interpreters and compilers are used. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 08:15, 27 October 2018 (UTC) |
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