Functional Programming

Everyone knows I like programming a lot.

And, if one is to program, why not do it properly?

Of course, Lisps are the best, having the indomitable defmacro.

But Haskell is great, too. I like monads, and algebraic datatypes in general.

But those who use less functional languages can take heart, as many languages increasingly add functions as first-class objects, anonymous functions, higher-order functions, and so on.

I’m using Python right now, and it does have lambdas. But what will be really neat is progress on Hy, a Lisp that boils down to the Python AST.