A great Alan Kay quote

[James]

Surely

"Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then
being a real problem in the longer term."

is better lol ;)


On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:00:32 -0800 (PST), Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> 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.
> 
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