list vs tuple

[Neil Schemenauer]

deadmeat wrote:
> I don't ever claim such.. what I am saying is that one learns a
> certain method early on, namely that a = b copies b to a.  This
> is not so in Python, and the tutorial breezes by this little
> detail as if one really could reset thy brain.

It is not so in many other languages as well (Smalltalk, Lisp,
Scheme, Icon, and Dylan to name a few).  Your experience with
programming languages seems to be very nallow.  I would suggest
learning languages like Prolog, Smalltalk, Forth, Haskell, and
Joy.

  Neil