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by dschobel 5959 days ago
perl:python

Hey this is fun! Now you do one again.
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zach 5959 days ago
Please. Python is so wildly C-like that it uses zero/non-zero for conditions.
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dschobel 5959 days ago
You're either being willfully ignorant or insincere now. Allowing non-boolean values in boolean clauses originated with lisp back in 1960. Furthermore, GvR is on the record as saying that his main influence for python was ABC.
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