In article <CAOFf2a1ot_659exV5pvdFq87AamkjzsgH1LBM=zx-w1hsac...@mail.gmail.com>, Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether....@gmail.com> wrote: > So I have been re-reading some of the python intro stuffs after a time > away philandering with other languages. I have been thinking about the > Zen of Python piece where it says 'namespaces are a honking great idea > - let's do more of those'. > > A question -- since then do we have any sort of list of major > innovations like that? Do we keep any sort of 'honking great idea > list' anywhere? Or maybe folks could suggest what some of those > milestones have been over time?
One suggestion: take a look at Raymond Hettinger's keynote address from the recent PyCon. Any of Raymond's talks are worth viewing but this one in particular is a higher-level sales pitch for Python: "Show the specific features that make Python more than just another scripting language." http://pyvideo.org/video/1669/keynote-3 -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
