On 5/26/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/26/06, kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Given Python's original goal was to be friendly to techies who are not
> > specifically computer scientists,
>
> Actually, that was ABC's goal. Python's original goal was to be a
> scripting language for people already fluent in C and sh.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>

Oh, OK.

Not many scientists and engineers learn C or sh any more.  ABC's
developers had the right idea.

Kirby
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