A Bug By Any Other Name ...

[Daniel Fetchinson]

>> Yes, there are plenty of languages other than Java and C, but the
>> influence of C is admittedly huge in Python. Why do you think loops
>> are called "for", conditionals "if" or "while", functions return via
>> "return", loops terminate via "break" and keep going via "continue"
>> and why is comparison written as "==", etc, etc? All of these are
>> coming from C (or an even earlier language) and my point is that users
>
> 	for, if, and return were common keywords in FORTRAN.
>
> 	Not to mention BASIC
>
> 	Both of which predate C

Yes, hence my comment above, ".... coming from C (or an even earlier
language) ......".

Cheers,
Daniel


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