[Haskell-cafe] Re: "Haskell is a scripting language inspired by Python."

[Jonathan Geddes]

Regardless of which languages got which features for which other
languages, Haskell is surely NOT a "scripting language inspired by
python"...

Also, it was my understanding that Python got list comprehensions
straight from Haskell. Unless, of course, some of the pre-Haskells
also had this feature.

Haskell: [f x | x <- xs, x <= 15]
Python: [f(x) for x in xs if x <= 15]

The Python version reads the way I would speak the Haskell one if I
were reading code aloud, though I might say "such that" rather than
"for"

--Jonathan Geddes

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 November 2010 12:03, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Python is approximately as old as Python and most likely got
>> indentation from ABC.
>
> Apologies that should read - "as old as Haskell"
>
> Obviously IDSWIM - (I _don't_ say what I mean).
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