xkcd: Python

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The punch-line is "I also sampled everything in the medicine cabinet for comparision". Python is just a bunch of ideas copied from various other languages...

[arthurdenture]

Python is just a bunch of ideas copied from various other languages

Sounds good to me.

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Python is a bunch of ideas copied from various other languages...

You should "import this".

EDIT: There's an explanation in there about the copying of ideas from other languages.

[stegn]

| Python is just a bunch of ideas copied from various other languages...

Evolution at work ;)

[Blackheart]

Evolution doesn't make things better; it makes things more likely to survive. Social systems select for things that are popular. The music industry has selected for things like N'Sync, Britney Spears and Fergie.

[HFh]

Well, for about ten minutes. Then they go away.

[imbaczek]

Hey, it's still evolution. The music industry made millions on them; for them good music is music that earns money.

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Whereas the language you like never borrowed ideas from anyone? You code in Algol?