Any other Python flaws?

[Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)]

Duncan Booth wrote:
>    BCPL Octal constants use '#', e.g. #177 and hex constants
> are '#X', e.g. #X7F, so like the dangling else, the leading
> 0 was an 'improvement' brought in post BCPL.

Yes - BCPL is another of those languages that was (in various ways) much
in advance of its descendants.

> BTW, I'm not really so sad as to still remember that much
> BCPL, I keep the BCPL book handy though in case of emergencies.

Ah - mine is at home, which is why I couldn't look it up.

ObPython: I find it interesting how many Python appreciators also fondly
remember BCPL and Algol68 (one totally untyped, and the other, well,
shall we say STRONGLY statically typed).

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