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

[Jonathan Ellis]

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Martelli <aleax at mac.com> writes:
>
> Alex> The difference, if any, is that gurus of Java, C++ and Python get to
> Alex> practice and/or keep developing their respectively favorite languages
> Alex> (since those three are the "blessed" general purpose languages for
> Alex> Google - I say "general purpose" to avoid listing javascript for
> Alex> within-browser interactivity, SQL for databases, XML for data
> Alex> interchange, HTML for web output, &c, &c), while the gurus of Lisp,
> Alex> Limbo, Dylan and Smalltalk don't (Rob Pike, for example, is one of the
> Alex> architects of sawzall -- I already pointed to the whitepaper on that
> Alex> special-purpose language, and he co-authored that paper, too).
>
> That's crazy.  Some of the key developers of Smalltalk continue to work
> on the Squeak project (Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and I'm leaving someone
> out, I know it...).  So please remove Smalltalk from that list.

I thought it was clear that Alex was talking about "smalltalk gurus who
work for Google."

-Jonathan