What is unique about Python?

[Alex Martelli]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

> In article <1h80qj8.1xwosof1xqlkl8N%aleax at mail.comcast.net>,
>  aleax at mail.comcast.net (Alex Martelli) wrote:
> 
> > gsteff <greg.steffensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >    ...
> > > that's not really what I'm looking for.  So I'm wondering, what is
> > > innovative about Python, 
> > 
> > The letter 'y'.  Before Python, it was woefully underused in the names
> > of programming languages.  Now, of course, there's also Ruby, but then
> > we know Ruby did get some ideas from Python (and the letter 'y' is one
> > of them).
> > 
> 
> Yacc has been around for a long time.

...but is not a programming language...


Alex