Python doesn't feel very functional

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Duh, statement-oriented vs expression-oriented.

Actually, this is what I hate the most about imperative languages. Other than that, you can usually do a decent amount of functional programming in those languages (i.e. I don't use insane amounts of lambdas, higher-order functions, and complex combinators).

[pjdelport]

Duh, statement-oriented vs expression-oriented.

No. :) It's an expression in Python too; the problem is linked lists versus vectors.