Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > > > gsteff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > that's not really what I'm looking for. So I'm wondering, what is > > > innovative about Python, > > > > The letter 'y'. Before Python, it was woefully underused in the names > > of programming languages. Now, of course, there's also Ruby, but then > > we know Ruby did get some ideas from Python (and the letter 'y' is one > > of them). > > > > Yacc has been around for a long time.
...but is not a programming language... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
