Why did no one invent Python before?

[Laurence Rowe]

The reason I like zope us that it is a little like smalltalk for the 
web. With the latest ZODB developments I think that a smalltalk like 
system for python will be possible (the perfect version for me would 
integrate with the xul runtime environment when that eventually appears).

Laurence

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> j_mckitrick at bigfoot.com (j_mckitrick) wrote in message news:<ec6dce8b.0406030618.75b70a9c at posting.google.com>...
> 
>>>- much better development environment; you really don't know what you're 
>>>missing until you've used smalltalk's browsers, inspectors and 
>>>debuggers. It's the main thing I really, really miss in python.
>>
>>I keep hearing about this Smalltalk IDE.  What is really the big deal,
>>and why hasn't MS ripped it off?  I tried to find screenshots but
>>couldn't.  I also applied for a demo download, but never heard back
>>from the company.
>>
> 
> 
> MS can't ripp it off. It is a "macro" less OO image based language.
> The "image based" is the technical difference and the reason why there
> is nothing and can never be something like Smalltalk for python (and
> python like languages).
> 
> The Perl/Ruby/Python/PHP world have the problem that the languages are
> written for intelligent programmer not for intelligent tools (like
> refactoring etc).