What other languages use the same data model as Python?
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 1 18:37:17 EDT 2011
Terry Reedy wrote:
> While Guido does not, that I know of, credit CLU as Python's direct
> inspiration, I think it (and Barbara Liskov) as the originator of
> Python's data model. I believe she thought of the call-by-object
> semantics as something of an innovation.
I don't think she can claim credit for that, seeing as as Lisp
was built around it. She may have invented the *term* "call by
object" (unnecessarily, in my opinion) but the idea wasn't new.
--
Greg
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