Why Python is like C++

[Tim Chase]

On 2013-12-21 11:19, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> GW-BASIC was a weak language, but two significant characters is 
> definitely too few. I think it was eight. Never used QuickBasic, I
> went Turbo Pascal instead, which had 32 significant characters.

In know that my first BASIC, Applesoft BASIC had the 2-character
names, and you had to load Integer Basic (with Ints in addition to the
standard Floats used in the BASIC provided by the ROM, a strange
choice).  So moving to Turbo Pascal (started with a 3.x series
version, but 6.x was a major upgrade) gave me more breathing-room and
data-types than I know what to do with :-)

Then there's the 6502 assembly on that Apple with its 2 user-facing
registers (plus the Instruction Pointer and Stack Pointer), so I
guess you could say that it has 1-bit variable names ;-)

-tkc