Functional Python Programming

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Julien Danjou is an open source hacker working at Red Hat. He started his
career as a Debian developer and contributed to a lot of free software (GNU Emacs,
Freedesktop, and so on), writing some software on his own, such as the awesome
window manager.


Nowadays, Julien contributes to OpenStack, an open source cloud platform
entirely written in Python. He has been a Python developer since then, worked on
Hy (an LISP dialect in Python), and written a self-published book titled The Hacker's
Guide to Python in 2014.


Amoatey Harrison is a Python programmer with a passion for building software
systems to solve problems. When he is not programming, he is playing video games,
swimming, or simply hanging out with friends.


After graduating from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
with a degree in computer engineering, he is doing his national service at the GCB
Bank Head Office in Accra, Ghana.


He would like to think of himself as a cool nerd.


Shivin Kapur is an aspiring computer science student who is passionate
about learning new things.


Gong Yi is a software developer working in Shanghai, China. He maintains an
open source project at https://github.com/topikachu/python-ev3, which can
control LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 by Python language.


I thank my wife Zhu Xiaoling for her patience and love, and I thank
my son Yang Yang for being the best thing ever.
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