Surely "Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term."
is better lol ;) On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:00:32 -0800 (PST), Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In an interview at > http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273 > Alan Kay said something I really liked, and I think it applies > equally well to Python as well as the languages mentioned: > > I characterized one way of looking at languages in this > way: a lot of them are either the agglutination of features > or they're a crystallization of style. Languages such as > APL, Lisp, and Smalltalk are what you might call style > languages, where there's a real center and imputed style to > how you're supposed to do everything. > > I think that "a crystallization of style" sums things up nicely. > The rest of the interview is pretty interesting as well. > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! Look!! Karl Malden! > at > visi.com > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
