A great Alan Kay quote

[Peter Hansen]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> In an interview at http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273
> Alan Kay said something I really liked, and I think it applies
> equally well to Python as well as the languages mentioned:
> 
>     I characterized one way of looking at languages in this
>     way: a lot of them are either the agglutination of features
>     or they're a crystallization of style. Languages such as
>     APL, Lisp, and Smalltalk are what you might call style
>     languages, where there's a real center and imputed style to
>     how you're supposed to do everything.
> 
> I think that "a crystallization of style" sums things up nicely.
> The rest of the interview is pretty interesting as well.

Then Perl is an "agglutination of styles", while Python might
be considered a "crystallization of features"...

-Peter