Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

[Terry Reedy]

"Douglas Alan" <doug at alum.mit.edu> wrote in message 
news:lc4pl9gc88.fsf at gaffa.mit.edu...
| "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
|
| > Here's the situation.  Python is making inroads at MIT, Scheme home 
turf.
| > The co-developer of Scheme, while writing about some other subject, 
tosses
| > in an off-the-wall slam against Python.  Someone asks what we here 
think.
| > I think that the comment is a crock and the slam better directed, for
| > instance, at Scheme itself.  Hence 'he should look in a mirror'.
|
| You are ignoring the fact that

This prefactory clause is false and as such it turns what was a true 
statement into one that is not.  Better to leave off such ad hominisms and 
stick with the bare true statement.

| Scheme has a powerful syntax extension mechanism

I did not and do not see this as relevant to the main points of my summary 
above.  Python has powerful extension mechanisms too, but comparing the two 
languages on this basis is a whole other topic.

tjr