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> it is amazing to me this guy is the creator of one of the most popular languages today when he is such a poor thinker.

This is unnecessary and a huge stretch given one blog post.

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Possibly gp was referring to other, well known writing by the author? I assume all have seen GVR on tail call optimization.

Maybe, but given that it was the opening to the comment with no reference to anything else it just seems like an unqualified opinion in the vein of the comenters criticisms of the post. It's gone now so I guess OP agreed.

i agreed it was unnecessary, but i don't think it's a huge stretch. most of the stuff i have read from him has come across as someone who has made up their mind and that's that. it's like when you ask someone why something is and the answer you get back isn't thoughtful, insightful, revealing, etc. but instead beats around the bush such that it reads like the person either doesn't understand or its because that's simply the way they want to do it. which is fine. python is (was?) his language, but i don't have to enjoy the perspective and approach. he no doubt knows way more than i do, but i never learn anything from him.

see here for some examples: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/08/25/2115204/inter...

almost every answer is basically "i like to be pragmatic" but neither the design of python or his answers reflect that.

so now that python is so popular, we have people completely unaware of the existence of languages like lisp/scheme and ml dialects, which are much more powerful and can be just as clean as or cleaner than python, and a stunted language taking over every project.

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