Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 02:38, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:28:24 -0500
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > Python is written in C (no surprise there!), but what is surprising
> > to some is that so many C-isms are in Python.  For example:
> >     IF FOO == BAR:
> >         PRINT 'YES'
> 
>     Ah yes, but try to to do this fun one:
> 
> if foo = bar:
>     print 'yes'

Here's an area where the BD4L explicitly departed from Algol-like
languages.

>>> foo = 5
>>> bar = 8
>>> if foo = bar: print 'yes'
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    if foo = bar: print 'yes'
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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