On Mon, Apr 05, 2004, Paul Prescod wrote: > > What people find readable depends mostly on what they are used to. The > reason Python is "so readable" on first read is because it rips off so > much syntax directly from C, the language that is the ancestor for all > of the other languages people use today. Speaking as someone whose first languages were BASIC and Pascal, both before C became so hugely popular, my feelings about Python's readability were more along the lines of it being different from C. Yes, I knew enough C to recognize where it was being ripped off -- but that's a far cry from the elegance of the language as a whole. -- Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Why is this newsgroup different from all other newsgroups?
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