Python Quiz

[Michael Sparks]

richardc writes:
> Im no expert but wouldnt you accept that Python has 'borrowed' FORTRAN's
> fixed format syntax.

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Michael Chermside wrote:
> Definitely NOT. Without addressing the question of HOW Python came by the
> idea of using indentation to indicate block structure, it clearly couldn't
> have been from Fortran, because what Python does and what Fortran does
> are COMPLETELY different.

Python is however pretty much peas in a pod with the way Occam uses
whitespace/indentation for structure & folding. Neither is in any way
close to the way Fortran uses it IMHO.


Michael.