On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:08 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Great languages are small but extensible, easy to read, and don't require > > learning a lot before you can get started writing code or reading someone > > else's code. > > > > Great languages: C and Scheme. And Python. > > > > But isn't Lua smaller than Python? That thought worries me a little. > > It's a lot smaller. And that worries me ONLY to the extent that I > might, at some point, have to write something in Lua. I would much > rather use a richer language than a poorer one, any day. > Some size is useful. A lot of "richness" leads you to Perl. You > learn new language constructs and they are completely orthogonal; you > use those constructs and they interact infinitely. > Agreed. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
