what has python added to programming languages? (lets be esoteric, shall we ; )

[Aahz]

In article <1145675520.890141.200020 at v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
Carl Banks <invalidemail at aerojockey.com> wrote:
>Cameron Laird wrote:
>> In article <1145626206.331666.80540 at t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>> Carl Banks <invalidemail at aerojockey.com> wrote:
>>>Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were
>>>> not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if it is
>>>> "merely" a best-of collection of language features or if there are
>>>> actually inventions that have not - or hardly - existed in programming
>>>> before python?
>>>
>>>Nesting by indentation
>>
>> You *do* realize this was present in ABC, among others, right?
>
>Yes.  I took the question to mean "what has Python made a commercial
>success out of that wasn't popular before", which I guess was taking
>quite a bit of liberty with it.  But he did give us the out of
>"hardly".  I think it would be fair to say nesting by indentation
>hardly existed before Python.

Yup.  I started following up to your post exactly as Cameron did before
I realized the rejoinder you were almost certain to make.  So I kept my
mouth shut.  ;-)
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