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it's better to not support functional programming at all than to do it in the half-assed way python does. guido has said that he hates functional programming. he's just afraid that if he removes the half-assed support for functional programming the 5 people who actually use python will stop using it.
and who said anything about haskell? try factor if you want a language with great support for functional programming that's good for getting actual work done.