Re:Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this?
by kragen on Saturday April 23, 2011 @06:32AM
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> You can't define anonymous functions in C.
You are of course correct. I have corrected the parent post.
My point is, though, that you almost can't define anonymous functions in Python, either, but you can do nearly all of these clever patterns. The difference is that Python functions are closures.
> And I wouldn't "attack" Joel for "stuffing the article full of lies". It's more like "abstracting away the details".
I agree that that's what a good teacher does, but I don't see this article as doing that.
You are of course correct. I have corrected the parent post.
My point is, though, that you almost can't define anonymous functions in Python, either, but you can do nearly all of these clever patterns. The difference is that Python functions are closures.
> And I wouldn't "attack" Joel for "stuffing the article full of lies". It's more like "abstracting away the details".
I agree that that's what a good teacher does, but I don't see this article as doing that.