> Yes! My only experience with Algol 68 was in an undergrad programming > language survey course about 10 years ago, and I remember thinking at > the time that they really got it right back in '68. ABC was designed by some folks who also worked on Algol 68. I assure you that some of the differences between Algol 68 and ABC came from bitter experience with the former. > I also have a dim recollection of pestering Guido about the > statement/expression divide once, and he insisted that it was a > feature. I respectfully disagree; I think we're all grown-ups here and > we can decide between ourselves when an expression is really a > statement. This is one thing that I think C got right (although > "if (x = ...)" is an abomination that should, at the very least, > generate a stern warning). Huh? Apart from the one thing you frown upon here, Python's distinction between statements and expressions is pretty much the same as that in C! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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