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10th January 2007 - Link Blog

What Python looks like naked. Michal Wallace has been doing some really interesting work writing purely functional code in Python. His latest experiment replaces all of the basic Python statements with equivalent functions.

Posted 10th January 2007 at 11:22 pm

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