Why did no one invent Python before?

[Aahz]

In article <roy-B1082A.11071403062004 at reader2.panix.com>,
Roy Smith  <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>
>Here's my take on the currently popular languages...
>
>C took off in the late 70's and early 80's because it was so much better 
>than the alternatives, and because it was wrapped up with Unix (about 
>which the same thing can be said).  C really was (and still is) a very 
>good language for what it was intended for: low level procedural 
>programming.

Heh.  _The Unix Hater's Handbook_ and "Worse is Better" are just two
examples of disagreement with that statement.

http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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