On Jan 29, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
After many years of OO Perl, I looked at Python. Within fifteen minutes I had switched, and I never looked back at Perl.
A few years later, I had a need to hack into the Python interpreter. While reading up on that, I came across references to Haskell. I soon realized that everything I liked about Python had been borrowed from Haskell in diluted form.
I do not think you are entirely right here; a lot of things were borrowed from a language called ABC, developed by Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton at the CWI as a substitute for Basic. See: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/ Doaitse
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