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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