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Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com> isn't that taken from SETL? > > (the more I look at SETL, the more Pythonic it looks. not too > bad for something that was designed in the late sixties ;-) You've got it backwards: Python's predecessor, ABC, was inspired by SETL -- Lambert Meertens spent a year with the SETL group at NYU before coming up with the final ABC design! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)