A great Alan Kay quote
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Wed Feb 9 17:45:54 EST 2005
Grant Edwards wrote:
> In an interview at http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273
> Alan Kay said something I really liked, and I think it applies
> equally well to Python as well as the languages mentioned:
>
> I characterized one way of looking at languages in this
> way: a lot of them are either the agglutination of features
> or they're a crystallization of style. Languages such as
> APL, Lisp, and Smalltalk are what you might call style
> languages, where there's a real center and imputed style to
> how you're supposed to do everything.
>
> I think that "a crystallization of style" sums things up nicely.
> The rest of the interview is pretty interesting as well.
Then Perl is an "agglutination of styles", while Python might
be considered a "crystallization of features"...
-Peter
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