Q: functional/equational language, smells a little of Python

Kay Schluehr kay.schluehr at gmx.net
Sun Jun 5 10:52:19 EDT 2005


John J. Lee wrote:
> "Kay Schluehr" <kay.schluehr at gmx.net> writes:
> [...]
> > I'm curious why do you think that it "smells like Python"? Because of
> > "batteries included"?
>
> Partly that and the mention of dynamic typing, plus harder-to-pin down
> things.
>
> I didn't mean to say that it was close kin to Python, just that on
> first impression it has some similarities.

O.K.

>
> > Are dotNET and Java Python-like because they come
> > up with a fast object library?
> [...]
> 
> What's a fast object library?

Sorry. 'Fast' was nonsense. 

Kay




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