Guido van Rossum

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. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#better #better way #clearly #hope #i

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#decide #design #designer #language #own

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. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#almost #area #definitely #fits #hammond

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. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#advice #ask #changes #colored #course

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. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#calculations #controlling #down #labs #large

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. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#cross-platform #definitely #good #i #independent