Re: A Bug By Any Other Name ...

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Daniel Fetchinson a écrit :
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) ......".


Mmm... Should we then claim that "the influence of FORTRAN is admittedly 
huge in Python" ?-)

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