Python slang

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 16:52:54 EDT 2016


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 9:31:40 PM UTC+5:30, Anders J. Munch wrote:
>> Python’s inspiration and origin is ABC
>> Whose assignment looked like
>> PUT expr INTO var
>>
>> This has the salutary effect
>> - Of being l-to-r (the only other such case I know is gas mov)
>
> Oh, there's of course COBOL:
>
>    ADD X TO Y GIVING RESULT

And Python:

with open(fn) as f:

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