Python is approximately as old as Python and most likely got indentation from ABC.
Checking on Wikipedia, one of the ABC's creators was Lambert Meertens (famous for *-morphisms amongst other things) so there is a lineage going back to Algol and Peter Landin / ISWIM. PS. my fact-checking is a bit ropey, but I think my general point stands that the current popular languages haven't taken much if anything from Haskell, rather its predecessors in the functional family. On 4 November 2010 11:09, Heinrich Apfelmus <apfel...@quantentunnel.de> wrote: > As far as I am informed, Python got the significant whitespace from Haskell. > Haskell itself (or rather the design committee) got the idea from SASL > (1976) and Miranda (1986), though it goes way back to the 1960s, as > described in section 4.1 "Layout" of > > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/History_of_Haskell > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
