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		angelbob on June 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clojure.rb Python offers most of the same abilities, though Pythonista culture seems to emphasize them less.

steveklabnik on June 9, 2010 [–]

Absolutely. The Python culture is explicitly anti-functional programming, even though the language doesn't have to be.

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