In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
Yup. I started following up to your post exactly as Cameron did before I realized the rejoinder you were almost certain to make. So I kept my mouth shut. ;-) -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." --Richard Bach -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
