On Apr 14, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: > After the 2001 "type/class unification" , it went towards Alan Kay's ideal
Are you sure? Remember Kay's two motivations [*], which he so elegantly describes with "[the] large scale one was to find a better module scheme for complex systems involving hiding of details, and the small scale one was to find a more flexible version of assignment, and then to try to eliminate it altogether." At least for me, this quote sends a signal to language designers that is still looking for a receiver -- Matthias [*] http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
