Re: Choosing a new language

Daniel Gee wrote:
And Ruby now beats Python by 25% on googlefight. That ain't just Rails,
that has to be Rails first, then, wow, anonymous functions are frickin
cool, meanwhile GvR almost removed from Python the lame ones he did support.

Why do you really need anonymous functions in python when you can
already declare functions inside of other functions?

....because without anonymous functions, you're forced to come up with a name even if there is no good name for what you want to express.

No language feature is 'necessary'. It's all about convenience.


Pascal

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