On 10/24/06, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:01:39 -0400 > > I recently listened to: > > Guido van Rossum: Building an Open Source Project and Community > http://cdn.itconversations.com/ITC.SDF-GuidoVanRossum.1-2005.02.17.mp3 > http://cdn.itconversations.com/ITC.SDF-GuidoVanRossum.2-2005.02.17.mp3 > > and I still don't get what's so compelling about Python. > > Guido made comparisons to Perl only in two areas - saying he likes > generators and iterators better than continuations, and essentially > saying he prefers the aesthetics of Python over Perl. > > That's really odd. I was once told (by a fellow Lisp refugee) that > Python is the favorite "new" language of Lisp programmers because it has > similar semantics. I wonder if that situation will change when Perl 6 > comes out; it is clear from the perl6-language list that Larry has drunk > deeply of the functional programming wine. FWIW.
Ironically Guido has very much NOT drunk of the functional programming wine. To be specific, he dislikes anonymous functions and closures, which is one of the reasons that Python's support for them is not great. (And he removed some of the support they have.) Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
