On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote:
Without interviewing the people concerned its probably impossible to
actually find out what influenced what - even though list
comprehensions have a long history the designers of Python might have
only seen them in Haskell so Python could well have "got" them from
Haskell.
The Python people have explicitly said they got the idea and syntax
from Haskell.
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsHaskell
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