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. -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
