On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 02:24 pm, einstein1...@gmail.com wrote: > Ethan, > If you think I am wasting time, don't read my posts. > Why wasting your time in reading my post. > > Are you having the answer of my question? > Till now no one is able to give answer, everybody just assuming something > and answering. No answer is perfect that satisfy why it uses >>>.
Guido picked >>> because he likes the look of it. When you create your own programming language, you can pick any prompt you like. Different programs, shells and languages use many different styles of prompts: Python: >>> iPython: In [1]: Ruby (irb): irb(main):001:0> bash: [steve@ando ~]$ bash (root): [steve@ando ~]# DOS: > rhino: js> lua: > julia: julia> xion: > mutt: : ed: (no prompt) zsh: [steve@ando]~% It is completely a matter of personal taste. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
