OT! Python vs... Objective-C!

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-06-21, Stephen Hansen <me+list/python at ixokai.io> wrote:

[...]

> I'm just learning Objective-C on my spare time, and am having these
> entirely disturbing feelings of familiarity, where strange swirling
> thoughts enter my head that sound oddly like, "This feels sorta
> Pythony, how oddly pleasant." With, of course, a bad smell from the
> syntax at the same time.

Both drew a great deal of inspiration from Smalltalk.  It's much more
obvious in O-C's syntax than in Python's.

>[...]

> And so, I’m learning. Its interesting. The most startling thing
> about it is how *Pythonic* it feels. I can’t quite put my finger
> on exactly why: its not the syntax, surely. Somehow the language has
> taken something perfectly repulsive on its own (Hi, C, I’m looking
> at you!) and turned it into a shrine to perversity.

It's just Smalltalk.

> And yet, after a day or two in it, it doesn’t really bother me so
> much anymore.

Sort of like significant whitespace?  At first I thought it a horrible
idea.

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