>> Yes, there are plenty of languages other than Java and C, but the >> influence of C is admittedly huge in Python. Why do you think loops >> are called "for", conditionals "if" or "while", functions return via >> "return", loops terminate via "break" and keep going via "continue" >> and why is comparison written as "==", etc, etc? All of these are >> coming from C (or an even earlier language) and my point is that users > > for, if, and return were common keywords in FORTRAN. > > Not to mention BASIC > > Both of which predate C
Yes, hence my comment above, ".... coming from C (or an even earlier language) ......". Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
