I was reading Lambda the Ultimate and came across a link to this interview with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python.

Where do you see computer programming languages heading in the near future?

I hope that at some point computers will have sufficient power that we don't need separate functional, dynamic, and statically typed languages, and instead can use a single language that combines the benefits of all three paradigms.

Given that Python firmly rejects functional programming (indeed any paradigm outside procedural and object-oriented), I can only assume that Python's BDFL doesn't see a long-term future for Python.

Make that two of us.