crazy programming language thoughts

[Christopher Barber]

Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> writes:

> "Ryan Lowe" <ryanlowe0 at msn.com> wrote:
> >
> >one of the things i love about python is its use of the actual words
> >or/and/not/is/in, where other languages would use symbols ||/&&/?!@#$%, what
> >have you.
> 
> The "other languages" thing is a little one-sided.  C and C++ are really
> the only mainstream languages to use symbols for these constructs.

and Java and C# and Tcl and Perl and Javascript, all influenced by C of course.

 - C