What other languages use the same data model as Python?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:25 AM, harrismh777 <harrismh777 at charter.net> wrote:
> Chris Torek wrote:
>>>
>>> with the Python-named-Monty, we have "rigidly defined areas of
>>> >doubt and uncertainty".  These exist for good reasons: to allow
>>> >different implementations.
>>
>> Oops, attribution error: this comes from Douglas Adams rather
>> than Monty Python.
>
> Well, its certainly Monte-esq.... I like it, whoever said it.

Same style of humour, they both derived significantly from Spike
Milligan and "The Goon Show". That particular quote relates to the
famous computer that calculated the number 42, which - to drag this,
kicking and screaming, back to some semblance of on-topicness - was
clearly built with a view to conserving programmer time at the expense
of execution time. I don't understand why they didn't just recode the
heavy computation in C and cut it down to just a few thousand years...

Chris Angelico