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Moreover, I dislike the fact that new features are implemented partly in the interpreter and partly in Python itself. It reminds me of TeX/LaTeX, where the enormous flexibility of TeX is used to let it change itself in order to become a LaTeX compiler. However, the underlying constructs are utterly ugly, as are some of Python's features (e.g. __getattr__ and such, and descriptors, in order to get nice class properties).
Well, I think TeX is just an awful, weird language with (AFAIK) dynamic scoping. Thinking of Lisp macros, I'd say that implementing features on top of a small language core is GREAT!
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