[Peter Hansen] > Then Perl is an "agglutination of styles", while Python might > be considered a "crystallization of features"...
Grosso modo, yes. Yet, we should recognise that Python agglutinated a few crystals in the recent years. :-) It gave up some of its purity for practical reasons. We got rather far from the "There is only one way to do it!" that once was Python motto. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list