> 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!
I'm pretty sure you will find this useful: http://python-history.blogspot.com/ written by Guido. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
