David MacQuigg wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:28:47 -0000, claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird)> wrote:> >
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> > I guess this reflects our different backgrounds. I've been an> electronic design engineer for many years. I never heard of lambda's> or lambda calculus until learning Python, and the name still doesn't> evoke much meaning for me. I've never used APL, J, or Perl. I wonder> how many technical professionals who are *not* programmers would know> what a lambda is? I wonder if Python is becoming more a language for> programmers, and less for "everyone".>
I was trained as an EE myself and started programming in assembler on
microprocessors, then in C , then in C++, reading, reading, reading,....
Just the mere fact that you are talking about lambda shows that you know
what it is, as I do now and as people learning Python will know when
they use it. They'll learn, that why they are technical professionals, no?
I have no problem with the way Python uses lambda and I like the fact
that it does not have cryptic keywords. I don't need to think about the
way things have to be written when I write Python programs, I think
about system design. I would think that a technical person that is not
a programmer would like that too.
Regards,
Pierre Rouleau
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