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Hans Nowak ivnowa at hvision.nl
Sat Dec 4 09:18:35 EST 1999 
On 3 Dec 99, James Logajan wrote:

> Nice and efficient so long as all you do is increment yourself along the X
> axis. But suppose you are using Python to maintain a count of the
> population of the planet Earth and want to use a sensible variable name
> (for porting purposes of course, in case you need to us e the same code on
> the planet Mars and want to remember which variable had the population
> count in it so you can change it to the right name). You'd have code that
> would look like:
> 
> populationOfthePlanetEarth = populationOfThePlanetEarth + 1
> 
> versus:
> 
> populationOfThePlanetEarth++
> 
> And if you weren't careful, you might make a hidden typo (like I did in
> the first example), thereby causing a cessation of population growth which
> would seriously impact economic growth and cause untold hardship.
> Therefore in the interest of the world economy it is essential that the
> next version of Python support the increment operator.

Aw, c'mon, everybody knows that such an important program would be 
written in Perl... ;-)

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