gsteff wrote: > So I'm wondering, what is > innovative about Python, either in its design or implementation? Or is > its magic really just in combining many useful features of prior > languages in an unusually pleasant way? > > Greg
The latter. http://www.python-in-business.org/ep2005/download.cpy?document=8599 As Guido described in his presentation Python is a decendent of ABC developed at the university where he studied. Here is some material about the primary motivations of ABC: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/language.html Python seems to proof that eclecticism can be done right. Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
