What is Python?

Darren New dnew at san.rr.com
Wed Sep 20 17:07:17 EDT 2000


Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> Those curse symbols have spoiled me, I admit.  
> [...]
> And I just never got into that whole Visual Basic convention:

Kind of funky how BASIC started out with type-symbols (A$ is a string, etc),
gained more in MS's version (A% is an int, A! is a float, if I remember),
and then dropped all that for some reason.

Off topic, but then so's what I'm following up. ;-)

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