A great Alan Kay quote

[François Pinard]

[Peter Hansen]

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

Grosso modo, yes.  Yet, we should recognise that Python agglutinated
a few crystals in the recent years. :-)

It gave up some of its purity for practical reasons.  We got rather far
from the "There is only one way to do it!" that once was Python motto.

-- 
François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca