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

[Alex Martelli]

Wildemar Wildenburger <wildemar at freakmail.de> wrote:

> Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a
> lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other 
> form of "like <feature> in <language>".

Since Python was released well before Java, saying that a feature in
Python is "like <a feature> in Java" normally doesn't mean that Python
imitated Java there -- it's either separate reinvention, or both of them
imitating another language.


Alex