Language change and code breaks

[Guido van Rossum]

Travis Oliphant <oliphant at ee.byu.edu> writes:

> I'll just chime in to say that as one who uses Python for
> science/engineering, I would be very unhappy not to be able to define the
> variables h and H to mean two different things.  Engineers often uses
> case to distinguish between the function and it's Fourier transform for
> example.

How did engineers cope with Fortran?  Fortran has long been the
preferred language for engineers, after C.S. folks moved on to C and
C++...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)