Python -- (just) a successful experiment?

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:10 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> writes:
> > The second presentation (I don't recall the speaker's name) specifically
> > covered metaprogramming (writing DSLs) and one of the things I found
> > interesting was that despite Ruby having far more syntax than Python in
> > general, the resulting Ruby-based DSLs presented had far *less* syntax
> > than had they been written in Python.  This is undoubtedly the reason
> > why Rails is apparently completely usable even if one knows very little
> > Ruby.
> 
> Interesting.  But if we can generalize from that, then Lisp should be
> ruling the web.

Well, that is perhaps the other key feature: the Ruby/Rails community
seems pretty friendly and eager to help people jump to their side of the
fence (much like the Python community, btw), whereas Lisp community is
an oxymoron.

Regards,
Cliff

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