A great Alan Kay quote
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Wed Feb 9 18:57:10 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
I'd say Python is somewhere in the middle, though moving slowly towards
'agglutination' in the last couple years.
> The rest of the interview is pretty interesting as well.
Excellent link, thanks.
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