One of the long-time jokes in Python is that it has all the block-delimiting
styles already.

for elm in lis:   # {
   print elm
# }

for elm in lis:
  # BEGIN
   print elm
   # END


Goldsmith is right that C was an innovation in its time. C was written in
order to write Unix. The concept of agile languages didn't exist: people
were looking more for something that could be clearly mapped to assembly
language. Just having functions rather than GOTO's was a big deal.

-- 
Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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