My familiarity with Python is a bit rusty, but the influence of Haskell might be over-stated.
Type classes have gone from Haskell to Clean, Mercury (others?), and monads have gone to F# but otherwise the functional features of the current crop Python, Ruby etc. are not much different to what has long existed in Scheme, ML, and the pre-Haskell "tower of babel" languages notably Miranda as it was the most visible. Did Haskell get significant whitespace from Python - doubtful as Python possibly wasn't visible enough at the time, but you never know. Doesn't COBOL have significant layout anyway as an inspiration to both? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
