Roy Smith wrote: > Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>One of the strengths of Python has been that the language itself is >>small (which it shares with C and (if I understand correctly, not being >>a lisp programmer?) Lisp), but with all the syntax enhancements going >>on, Python is getting pretty complicated. I have to wonder if new users >>won't begin to find it just as intimidating as Perl or other big >>languages. > > +1 > > Even some of the relatively recent library enhancements have been kind of > complicated. The logging module, for example, seems way over the top. > > Look at what happened to C when it mutated into C++. In isolation, most of > the features of C++ seem like good ideas. Taken together, it's a huge > hairy mess that most people only understand increasingly larger subsets of. > Fred Brooks called it the second system sy
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