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

Stephen Tetley wrote:

Did Haskell get significant whitespace from Python - doubtful as Python possibly wasn't visible enough at the time, but you never know. Doesn't COBOL have significant layout anyway as an inspiration to both?

As far as I am informed, Python got the significant whitespace from Haskell. Haskell itself (or rather the design committee) got the idea from SASL (1976) and Miranda (1986), though it goes way back to the 1960s, as described in section 4.1 "Layout" of http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/History_of_Haskell Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com