Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > >> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were > >> not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if it is > >> "merely" a best-of collection of language features or if there are > >> actually inventions that have not - or hardly - existed in programming > >> before python? > > > >Nesting by indentation > . > You *do* realize this was present in ABC, among others, right?
Yes. I took the question to mean "what has Python made a commercial success out of that wasn't popular before", which I guess was taking quite a bit of liberty with it. But he did give us the out of "hardly". I think it would be fair to say nesting by indentation hardly existed before Python. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
