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::Wow. The [[wp:No_true_Scotsman|no-true-Scotsman]] is thick on the ground. Hey, If Python doesn't want you, come on over to Perl 6. We've quite cheerfully stolen many of the good bits from Haskell and are always happy to see functional implementations of various tasks. (I personally am ''interested'' in functional programming, but I suck at it. 🙄) --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 12:52, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
 
:::Thanks ! The resources of Perl have found a way through many difficult moments for me (most memorably 4Gb of badly formed CSV files, in which commas sometimes delimited fields, and sometimes just expressed English pauses :-) Python too of course – 4 years later a single 4Gb file of (better formed) CSV) was swiftly handled by the Python CSVReader. Fortunately, functional programming remains a well-embedded and well discussed part of Python use, and an unimpeded route to all the Python libraries :-) The community made sure of that ... [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 13:02, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
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