All Guido van Rossum Quotes
- Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented. All
- I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will… Actually Let
- It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have… Already Implemented
- Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from… Almost Perfectly
- Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better. Better
- If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. Amateur
- I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest… Anyone
- If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing… All
- My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or… Advice
- In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar… Built
- The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where… Environment
- There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical… Ago
- Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent. Believe
- Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at… All