Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: "Haskell is a scripting language inspired by Python."

On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote:

Without interviewing the people concerned its probably impossible to actually find out what influenced what - even though list comprehensions have a long history the designers of Python might have only seen them in Haskell so Python could well have "got" them from Haskell.

The Python people have explicitly said they got the idea and syntax from Haskell. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsHaskell