On Jan 15, 8:02 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > I'd say there was a time Lisp worked the right way, and a time C > worked the right way, and maybe a time Python worked the right way, > and for a while, Algol 60 was perfection embodied. But times have > changed more than those languages have, so they no longer work the > right way.
Or perhaps it is you who changed? I can only speak for myself, but when I first met Python (coming from Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Mathematica, Maple) it was the best language I could imagine. Now Python is still the best language I can find, but it is no more the best I can imagine, because I know much more about programming than before. But I would say that's normal and even healthy. The best language is the one yet to be invented! > Have you looked at Tim Sweeney's talk that I mentioned in another post? > > http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/s... I will have a look now. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
