What other languages use the same data model as Python?
Jorgen Grahn
grahn+nntp at snipabacken.se
Mon May 2 03:45:20 EDT 2011
On Sun, 2011-05-01, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/1/2011 4:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
...
>> What other languages use the same, or mostly similar, data model as
>> Python?
>
> Natural languages. That is why I think it is better to think of Python
> as an algorithm language or information-object manipulation language
> rather than as just a linear-memory machine language.A linear memory
> with bytes addressed from 0 to max-int or max-long is an explicit part
> of the definition of assembly languages and C. It is no part of the
> definition of Python.
It's not part of the definition of C either -- C supports segmented
memory (pre-386 Intel) and separate code/data address spaces. (Even if
most C users tend not to think of it that way.)
/Jorgen
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