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.

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

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

Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.

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.

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.

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

America is a sovereign nation. And as President Trump has said all along, made a centerpiece of his campaign from day one, we have to stop the flow of people and drugs over our borders.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.