Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-06-12, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-06-11, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> More so than supporters of most other languages, in particular > >> Scheme? > > > > Well to my knowledge (which could be vastly improved), scheme > > doesn't have some Zen-rules that include something like this. > > > > I tried to google for similar remarks in relation to scheme but > > I got no results. Maybe your google skills are better. > > It's in _The Revised^%d Report on Scheme_, Introduction: > > Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature > on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and > restrictions that make additional features appear necessary. > > Of course, that was written well before Scheme had most of its > current features.
The "Spirit of C" section in the preface of the ISO Standard for C phrases this principle as "Provide only one way to do an operation". Despite the phrasing variations, this commonality goes well with my perception that, at their roots, Scheme, C and Python share one philosophical underpinning (one that's extremely rare among programming languages as a whole) -- an appreciation of SIMPLICITY AND UNIFORMITY as language characteristics. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
