language aesthetics

[laotseu]

Sandy Norton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I often worry that I've become so 'comfortable' with python that I may
> end turning into a language bigot not appreciating the ideas and
> motivations behind other language designs. As a counter to this, I
> usually take it upon myself to put some effort into learning how other
> languages do it. At times this leads to wonderful and rewarding
> journeys (e.g. haskell), and at other times, I run away screaming back
> to pythonistan (e.g.
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/04/09/synopsis.html ).
> 
> My question is: what other languages 'fit' the common aesthetic (if it
> exists) of a pythonista?


IMHO, you could go for Smalltalk, Objective-C (which adds a 
Smalltalk-like object layer to plain old C), and Common Lisp...

my 2 (euro)cents...

Laotseu