Python's simplicity philosophy

Donn Cave donn at u.washington.edu
Tue Nov 18 13:10:53 EST 2003


In article <du765hi40vb.fsf at amadeus.cc.tut.fi>,
 Ville Vainio <ville.spammehardvainio at spamtut.fi> wrote:

> Lisp is too verbose for my tastes (I don't want to write 'let' ot
> 'setq'), doesn't have much in the way of libs and generally doesn't
> feel as 'right' as Python (I do use Emacs Lisp occasionally,
> though.. and will try out some CL one of these days). Dylan, OTOH,
> doesn't seem to be all that active a project, at least the last time I
> checked.

The current version of Gwydion Dylan http://www.gwydiondylan.org/ 
is a whole 2 months old, with a fairly good selection of supported
platforms.

   Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu




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