Talk:Evaluate binomial coefficients: Difference between revisions
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, 5 years ago→Please desist from deleting Functional Python examples
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: There is an ample literature on functional programming in Python, and I have no interest in influencing (or, unlike you, crudely deleting) anyone else.
: The PEP guidelines (and the subset of Python which they canonize) are not optimised for functional programming, and have never so far aimed to be. The ex-BDFL was explicit in his personal aversion to structuring code as a composition of pure functions ('lemon juice' he called it), so those who wish to write functional code are (as is widely documented online) still forced to swim against the tide of some of the design decisions associated with his period of influence.
: The use of Hindley-Milner style type comments in functional code written in Python, and several other languages, is a mathematically and practically natural choice, and not, alas, something that I invented. It is well-established outside the parochial boundaries of Rosetta Code, and I have previously pointed you to good examples of it.
: Neither technical issues, nor your chosen definition of the 'The Python Community' or sub-community are the real issue here.
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