Aahz wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Cameron Laird wrote: >> >>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>>Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: >>>> >>>>>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? >>>> >>>>Nesting by indentation >>> >>>You *do* realize this was present in ABC, among others, right? >> >>Yes. I took the question to mean "what has Python made a commercial >>success out of that wasn't popular before", which I guess was taking >>quite a bit of liberty with it. But he did give us the out of >>"hardly". I think it would be fair to say nesting by indentation >>hardly existed before Python. > > > Yup. I started following up to your post exactly as Cameron did before > I realized the rejoinder you were almost certain to make. So I kept my > mouth shut. ;-)
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