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- If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. — 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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. — Guido van Rossum