twenty years ago Guido created Python

[Steve Holden]

Phlip wrote:
> On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell <showel... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Python is a truly awesome programming language.  Not only is Guido a
>> genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader.  What
>> an accomplishment.  Congratulations to everybody who has contributed
>> to Python in the last two decades!
> 
> The more languages you learn before getting to Smalltalk, the more
> awesome Smalltalk will be for you.
> 
After implementing SmallTalk I more or less gave up OO programming for
ten years, resuming it only after I met Python. SmallTalk didn't seem
that awesome to me.

Though for its time it was an incredible system, its insistence on a
SmallTalk-only VM environment seemed a little solipsistic.

regards
 Steve
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