Python Gains Functional Programming Syntax via Coconut

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The new language compiles directly to standard Python, so apps don’t need a new interpreter to run.

Coconut, a newly developed open source dialect of Python, provides new syntax for using features found in functional languages like Haskell and Scala. Programs written in Coconut compile directly to vanilla Python, so they can be run on whatever Python interpreter is already in use.

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