Python slang
Anders J. Munch
andersjm at stofanet.dk
Sun Aug 7 04:38:07 EDT 2016
Marco Sulla via Python-list:
> Well, they are the most used languages.
They weren't when Python was created.
Python's terms raise/except and self were normal for the time. C++ was
the odd one out. throw/catch and this are Stroustrup's inventions, no
other language used those terms.
It was only later that language designers fell into the notion that it
was crucial for a new language's success to look as much like C++ as
possible.
regards, Anders
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