"If you're talking about Java in particular, Python……" — Guido van Rossum
"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 is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset."
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Guido van Rossum
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14 Quotes by Guido van Rossum
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost…
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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…
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My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about…
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In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages.…
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The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a…
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There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting…
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Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used…
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