Hi all, I'm doing some work in programming languages and I'm looking for a short history of python development, from the point of view of the initial development of the syntax. I know I can go through the mailing lists and news groups (and I am doing that at the moment), and the python history blog has some stuff, but is there anyone who can recommend a site/book that has a good description of how the syntax was chosen and the arguments for/against some of the basic syntax elements. I understand a lot of it was taken from ABC, so if anyone has the same info for that language, that would be great too!
Any help would be much appreciated, in the mean time, I must return to churning through the mailing lists :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
