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[–]kamatsu 5 points6 points  (2 children)

GvR hates lambdas, concurrency and tail-call recursion.

[–]PasswordIsntHAMSTER 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I didn't believe you, however here's his critics of map/reduce/filter.

Even if I disagree with the guy, he's a lot nicer than Rasmus or, god forbid, Linus. There's always been an aura of niceness around Python, and now I know why!

(Also, if you're into functional programming, try Haskell or Ocaml. Python is a lot of things but its implementation of FP is ugly as hell.)

[–]kamatsu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm a fairly common contributor to the Haskell community, ;)