Functional Programming Features


Peter Norvig: '...a dialect of LISP with "traditional" syntax.'

FP features
First class functions
Recursion
Reliance on lists
Closures

Python Functional Built-ins
lambda <args>: <expr> --> <fn-object>
map(<function>, <list>) --> <list>
filter(<function>, <list>) --> <list>
reduce(<function>, <list>) --> value
[<expr> for <vars> in <sequence> if <test>]