Python design philosophy

[Grant Edwards]

In article <8jidt1$2k5s$1 at noao.edu>, Richard Wolff wrote:
>thomas at xs4all.nl (Thomas Wouters) writes:
>
>>On 30 Jun 2000 19:47:38 +1200, Paul Foley <see at below> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 02:03:56 GMT, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>>> C predates the PDP-11 so we'll chalk it up to convergent
>>>> evolution.
>
>>>Oh no it doesn't.
>
>>Oh yes it does ;) The first bits of C, including, for instance, the
>>auto-increment operators, were designed and used on the PDP-7, not the
>>PDP-11.
>
>>> C was written for the Unix port to PDP-11.
>
>>More like 'during' than 'for'. UNIX and C both, together, evolved on for
>>quite a number of years (witness the new C & UNIX 'standards')
>
>"C was originally written for the PDP-11 under UNIX ... "
>  The C Programming Language, by D. M. Ritchie, S. C. Johnson, M. E. Lesk,
>  and B. W. Kernighan, Bell System Technical Journal, Vol 57, #6, 1978, Pg 1991

OK, weren't most of the C operators (which match so well PDP-11
addressing modes) first present in C's ancestors that did
predate the PDP-11?

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