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[Will Rose]

Mark Jackson <mjackson at wc.eso.mc.xerox.com> wrote:
: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at acm.org> writes:

:> Gerrit Holl writes:
:>  > As i said: people who start with Python as a first language like it.
:> 
:>   There are those of us who started with x86 assembly and BASIC who
:> like it too!  (And Pascal, and C, and C++, and... hey, how many places 
:> can one person start in, anyway? ;)

: And Fortran.  Don't forget Fortran.

I always assumed that Python's whitespace rules _came_ from Fortran IV:
or at least something overly intimate with 80-col punched cards.


Will
cwr at crash.cts.com
And now, little kitties, this job is urgent so we will drop the nice
cards all _over_ the floor!