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 _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
