Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

[Douglas Alan]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> Here's the situation.  Python is making inroads at MIT, Scheme home turf. 
> The co-developer of Scheme, while writing about some other subject, tosses 
> in an off-the-wall slam against Python.  Someone asks what we here think. 
> I think that the comment is a crock and the slam better directed, for 
> instance, at Scheme itself.  Hence 'he should look in a mirror'.

You are ignoring the fact that Scheme has a powerful syntax extension
mechanism (i.e., hygenic macros), which means that anyone in the world
can basically extend Scheme to include practically any language
feature they might like it to have.

|>oug