Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a > lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other > form of "like <feature> in <language>". > > Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were > not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if it is > "merely" a best-of collection of language features or if there are > actually inventions that have not - or hardly - existed in programming > before python? > > wildemar
1. One of the strenght of Python is that it does not try to be particularly original, most of the times it just borrows the good features from other languages without borrowing the warts. 2. If you ask in a Lisp newsgroup, they will tell you that they invented everything that it is cool now (in any language) over 40 years ago. They are also mostly right ;) Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list