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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 of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make."
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"If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want."
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"Some activities may look attractive, but you don't have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!"
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"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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"Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer."
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"Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity."
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"Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change."
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"Never joined the wrong boat. When the destination is right, and the direction is wronged, everything goes wrongly!"
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"Of all the thoughts that hover in your mind, the one you deliberately choose and act upon - changes your LIFE!"
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"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 the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either."
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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 more clearly will be of tremendous value."
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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 Python internals or at least standard libraries."
People
"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."
Funny
"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 Java, actually."
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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 programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly."
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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 very large numerical calculations."
Calculations
"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 to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages."
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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 of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make."
Decision
"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."
Design
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