[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." I know this quote because it is the motto of the F programming language http://www.fortran.com/F/ , a "simplified spinoff" of Fortran 95. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
