Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:48:39 -0700, Daniel Fetchinson
<fetchin...@googlemail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
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
FORTRAN also used "=" for assignment (and ".EQ." for comparison).
C was derived from BCPL which used ":=" for assignment and "=" for
comparison.
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