In an interview at
http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273
Alan Kay said something I really liked, and I think it applies
equally well to Python as well as the languages mentioned:
I characterized one way of looking at languages in this
way: a lot of them are either the agglutination of features
or they're a crystallization of style. Languages such as
APL, Lisp, and Smalltalk are what you might call style
languages, where there's a real center and imputed style to
how you're supposed to do everything.
I think that "a crystallization of style" sums things up nicely.
The rest of the interview is pretty interesting as well.
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