Michele Simionato: Also consider the famous Clinger's maxim > “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.”
I'm relaxed, don't worry :-) I know that maxim, but after learning Python, Scheme (and lot of other things) I think it's often wrong. Well chosen restrictions sometimes are very useful, they may act like a scaffolding, you can build higher constructions on them (Python has no macros, this is a restriction. But this restriction has some advantages. One of the main advantages is that it makes the Python code more uniform across different programmers, this is one of the thinks that makes the Python world so full of pre-made modules to do most of the things you may want to do). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
