ANN: PyStream - a C++ stream emulation

Rainer Deyke root at rainerdeyke.com
Wed Aug 23 01:22:44 EDT 2000


"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield at niwa.cri.nz> wrote in message
news:966995724.660577 at clam-ext...
> This is the reason (well, one of the reasons) for feature-overloaded word
> processors. Everybody wants a small, light, elegant word processor, and
> everybody wants just one feature (a different one in every case) that the
> small, light, elegant word processor doesn't have.

A truly optimal language is so expressive that all conceivable new features
can be added in the form of libraries, leaving the core language untouched.
Python isn't that language, though it's closer than certain other languages
I could name.


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