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[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Python's readability

[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Python's readability [Python-Dev] PEP 318: Python's readabilityAahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Apr 5 13:27:19 EDT 2004
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.
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