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Are small amounts of functional programming understandable by non-FP people?
Case: I'm working at a company, writing an application in Python that is handling a lot of data in arrays. I'm the only developer of this program at the moment, but it will probably be ...
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If we can do functional programming with Python, do we need a specific functional programming language? [closed]
Using generators and lambda, we can do functional programming with Python. You can also achieve the same thing with Ruby.
So the question is: why do we need specific functional programming languages ...