why is python better than eg. smalltalk?? no one has any solid arguments! you should all go to church with all that religious talk!

[Daniel Dittmar]

Carlo v. Dango wrote:
> OK, I'm on the python wagon as well, but I do not really se much
> improvement over JAVA... especially when it comes to maintaining and
> reusing code (e.g. API's)... here the types are really helpful. So

If you name a post with a subject about 'python and smalltalk' and then
start about 'python and java', then bondage and discipline languages are
definitely the right thing for you ;-)

The topic of static vs. dynamic types been discussed a lot here and
elsewhere.

> Also, I see all this advocacy of python which to me seems more like
> religion.. there is no concretenes in it, and I completely fail to
> see how python beats any of the other dynamically typed languages
> such as smalltalk or self... what is it with you guys? :)

When I started using Python, there were two reasons:
- no good free eimplementation of Smalltalk
- Smalltalk doesn't scale well to small tasks

Point 1 has probably changed with Squeak. But I'd really have to use it for
a while to be confident enough to inflict it upon others.

Don't know about point 2: When I had a new version of some small 'script', I
had only the alternatives
* to distribute full images
* to distribute source which the users had to integrate into their images
Maybe this has changed as well.


Daniel