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		dschobel on Feb 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Go captures developers' imaginations perl:python Hey this is fun! Now you do one again.

zach on Feb 28, 2010 [–]

Please. Python is so wildly C-like that it uses zero/non-zero for conditions.

dschobel on March 1, 2010 | [–]

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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