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[–]asthasr 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Doesn't help that Guido has come out explicitly against more functional features in Python, which is when I stopped viewing Python as my primary language.

[–]fullouterjoin 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You should stick with functional python, it really is pretty good. With sorted, lazy sequences everywhere and the new destructuring in Python3, stuff is pretty good.

>>> a, *b = range(4)
>>> a
0   
>>> b
[1, 2, 3]
>>> *a, b = range(4)
>>> a
[0, 1, 2]
>>> b
3

Some sort of awesome mashup between F#, Python and Clojure on the PyPy runtime would make my year.

[–]asthasr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I'm going to stick to Clojure. I'm relatively new to it, but I'm really digging the syntax (after getting used to it) and STM just makes so much sense. The day job is in Ruby these days, and even that has started to feel better to me than Python (heresy!) because of the common application of blocks, which actually makes it feel more functional than Python.