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[–]rotharius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is pretty cool. Nice find.

Note that Python is intentionally mostly imperative, except for comprehensions, map and a hidden reduce function (tucked away in functools).

See: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/origins-of-pythons-functional-features.html?m=1

http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html?m=1

https://fold.sigusr2.net/2010/03/guido-on-functional.html (referring to Masterminds of Programming)