May 26, 2006
8:09 p.m.
On 5/26/06, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On 5/26/06, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
Given Python's original goal was to be friendly to techies who are not specifically computer scientists,
Actually, that was ABC's goal. Python's original goal was to be a scripting language for people already fluent in C and sh.
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Oh, OK. Not many scientists and engineers learn C or sh any more. ABC's developers had the right idea. Kirby