[Boston.pm] Python

   From: Tom Metro <pm-5a1Jt6qxUNc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   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
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