>(equal? (not 1) (not #t)) #t

But more seriously, why the long face?

There are lambdas !:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Maybe it’s somewhat of a continuum. Compared to Lisp, Python isn’t that much expression-oriented, but compared to some other languages, it’s probably more expression-oriented.

barely :stuck_out_tongue:

X-posting: Haven’t read it yet, but this paper was linked in a newsletter I read and mentions Racket: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3468264.3468574

These, days imperative languages hawk lambdas like Walmart hawks stuff with rainbows every June.

Don’t get me wrong; I like Python well enough. It’s the best language available for doing what I get paid to do. But trying to make Python out to be a functional language - or even, frankly, a language where FP is a reasonable choice - is just too tryhard for my tastes.

I think this is about a project that Sage Gerard is working on

if I had scrolled to page 2, I would have seen it was about a project called Lya :slightly_smiling_face:

And indeed Sage is mentioned in the Acknowledgements