A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

[Joe Marshall]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Ken Tilton <kentilton at gmail.com> wrote:
>    ...
> > But the key in the whole thread is simply that indentation will not
> > scale. Nor will Python.
>
> Absolutely.  That's why firms who are interested in building *seriously*
> large scale systems, like my employer (and supplier of your free mail
> account), would never, EVER use Python,

So how much Python code runs when I check my gmail?

> nor employ in prominent
> positions such people as the language's inventor and BDFL, the author of
> the most used checking tool for it, and the author of the best-selling
> reference book about that language; and, for that matter, a Director of
> Search Quality who, while personally a world-renowned expert of AI and
> LISP, is on record as supporting Python very strongly, and publically
> stating its importance to said employer.

Doesn't Google also employ such people as the inventor of Limbo
programming language, one of the inventors of Dylan, and a Smalltalk
expert?