Grant Edwards 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
I'd say Python is somewhere in the middle, though moving slowly towards 'agglutination' in the last couple years. > The rest of the interview is pretty interesting as well. Excellent link, thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list