On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Ritwik <rana....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 :)
Most changes since the original basic syntax are documented as PEPs, which usually contain arguments and analyses of the proposed syntaxes and which were chosen in the end: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
