Python slang

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 9:02:15 PM UTC+12, Anders J. Munch wrote:

> It was only later that language designers fell into the notion that it
> was crucial for a new language's success to look as much like C++ as
> possible.

Nevertheless, Python copied the C misfeature of using “=” for assignment and “==” for equality comparison, instead of the more 1337 mathy CompSci tradition of “:=” for the former and “=” for the latter.