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

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Sun Jun 5 10:44:28 EDT 2005


"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.


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

What's a fast object library?


John



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