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Danny Ayers scripsit:
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> sayeth the functional programmer :
> >Python is essentially Scheme with indentation instead of parentheses.
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> sayeth the OO programmer :
> Python is essentially Java with indentation instead of braces.
>
> sayeth the procedural programmer :
> >Python is essentially Pascal with indentation instead of (errm) newlines.
Yes, these are true too. But Python 2.x has continuations (somewhat hidden,
but they're there, aka a non-LIFO control regime. No other language in
non-research use has that except Scheme.
Java, as befits a C-heritage language, doesn't even have closures
(well, inner classes are closures, I guess), much less continuations.
Pascal has closures but not continuations.
--
John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz.
-- Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words"
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