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Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.
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I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software…
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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…
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Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's…
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Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.
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If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
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I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one…
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If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet…
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My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to…
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In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus…
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The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of…
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There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling…
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The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful…
— Richard Stallman
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Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
— Jeff B. Davis
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Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the…
— Eric S. Raymond
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I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.
— Andy Lau
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Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry…
— Sam Hamill
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The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory…
— Khalil Gibran
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Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to…
— Yann Martel
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Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood,…
— Douglas Coupland
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A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
— David Crystal
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If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet…
— Guido van Rossum
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
— Victor Hugo
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