Peter Maas: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >> Davor is right: even if >> you do not want to use it, the stuff is *there* and somebody in your >> team will. So definitely there is an audience of programmers that just >> do not have an use for all the sophistication and actually are >> penalized by it.
>No, because Python does not enforce using advanced concepts. You >can write programs that are as simple as in 1991. A group of developers >always has to find some kind of common style with a chance that some >are penalized. This can happen with every language. No. In theory C++ could be kept as simple as C but in practice it is not. >> There is not much than can be done at the Python level. But I would >> see with interest a Python spinoff geared towards simplicity. >I think this would be useless because advanced concepts exist for >a reason. A simplified spin-off would aquire advanced concepts >over time and would just become a clone of Python. And then we will need another simplified spinoff ;) There is always a fight between simplificity and complexity. Some complexity is not needed, and I am sure even in Python something could be dropped. But it is difficult to find what can be removed. Remember that Saint-Exupery quote? Something like "a work of art is finished when there is nothing left to remove?" M.S. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
