On Mon, Apr 05, 2004, Paul Prescod wrote:
What people find readable depends mostly on what they are used to. The reason Python is "so readable" on first read is because it rips off so much syntax directly from C, the language that is the ancestor for all of the other languages people use today.
Speaking as someone whose first languages were BASIC and Pascal, both before C became so hugely popular, my feelings about Python's readability were more along the lines of it being different from C. Yes, I knew enough C to recognize where it was being ripped off -- but that's a far cry from the elegance of the language as a whole. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Why is this newsgroup different from all other newsgroups?