Is '[' a function or an operator or an language feature?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 17/07/2010 03:59, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> Tim,
>
>> 2.x?! You were lucky. We lived for three months with Python 1.x in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, write our 1.x code using ed, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down in machine language, fourteen hours a day,
> week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad
> would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt...
>
> Luxury. Our computers only had 256 bytes[1] of RAM and We had to enter
> our code, in the dark, using loose binary toggle switches with poor
> connections. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in
> the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at
> the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat
> us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
>
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
>
> [1] http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/elf/html/elf-1-33.htm

I'm just envisaging a "Paper Tape Repairman" sketch.

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.