A great Alan Kay quote

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-02-09, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:

>>     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.

> Then Perl is an "agglutination of styles", while Python might
> be considered a "crystallization of features"...

Exactly.

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