python without OO

[beliavsky at aol.com]

michele.simionato at gmail.com wrote:

> >> There is not much than can be done at the Python level. But I
would
> >> see with interest a Python spinoff geared towards simplicity.
>
> >I think this would be useless because advanced concepts exist for
> >a reason. A simplified spin-off would aquire advanced concepts
> >over time and would just become a clone of Python.
>
> And then we will need another simplified spinoff ;)
> There is always a fight between simplificity and complexity.
> Some complexity is not needed, and I am sure even in Python
> something could be dropped. But it is difficult to find what can
> be removed. Remember that Saint-Exupery quote? Something
> like "a work of art is finished when there is nothing left to
remove?"
> M.S.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away."

I know this quote because it is the motto of the F programming language
http://www.fortran.com/F/ , a "simplified spinoff" of Fortran 95.