Re: From Lua to Python?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Dibyendu Majumdar once stated:
>>
>> There have been several threads here on how to grow Lua. It would be
>> interesting to understand the driving factors behind Python's
>> popularity and maybe some of that can be adopted in Lua. I don't
>> really know but it seems to me:
>
>   To me, it's obvious---Python is an opinionated program.  There's only
> *one* way to do things.  That, and an almost forced programming style.
> People really seem to like belligerent software ("don't make me think,
> bro!") [1].

That's actually an explicit design goal. In opposition to Perl's
"there's more than one way to do it", Python's documented policy is
"there should be one (and preferably only one) obvious way to do it".

/s/ Adam