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

[John Nagle]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Michele Simionato <michele.simionato at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>I see Python or C as much better practical implementations
>>of Sussman's quote about minimalism than real Scheme (for
>>an example of real Scheme, I refer for instance to the PLT
>>implementation).
> 
> 
> Python and C as programming languages are like democracy as a system
> of government--absolutely terrible, but everything else seems to be
> even worse.
> 
> The real answer (to programming languages, not governments) seems
> tantalizingly close, but not here yet.  

     Modula 3 was getting close, but it was being developed
at DEC, which had no software business outside of selling for DEC systems.
Then Compaq bought DEC and HP bought Compaq and all the research units
disappeared.

				John Nagle