alt Hacker NewsLambdas are intentionally kneecapped in python because Guido van Robson doesn't want to make a functional language. (As in "functional programming", not that it doesn't work.)
Lambdas are intentionally kneecapped in python because Guido van Robson doesn't want to make a functional language. (As in "functional programming", not that it doesn't work.)
Guido van Rossum didn't oppose functional programming, but he wanted to keep the language (and the interpreter) simple.