Is Python really a scripting language?

[Marco Mariani]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

> As far as I'm concerned, anyone (I mean, anyone pretending to be a 
> programmer) being ignorant enough to ask such a question ranks high in 
> my bozo list. Don't waste time with bozos.


Alan Kay said it well enough without using words like "pretending", 
"ignorant" and "bozo" :)

http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273

It's worth a read.