Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?
Douglas Alan
doug at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jun 15 17:05:27 EDT 2007
"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
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