"He was clearly influenced by Algol 68's philosophy of providing constructs that can be combined in many different ways to produce all sorts of different data structures or ways of structuring a program." - Guido van Rossum Federico Biancuzzi, Shane Warden: Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages. Hrsg.: O’Reilly Media. 2009, ISBN 0-596-51517-0, S.32 (Google Books [abgerufen am 14. Dezember 2009]).
