Python descendant to Perl?

[Paul Rubin]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:
> Perl's OO features were added later in Perl's life, and Larry Wall studied
> Python's object model closely before designing Perl's (they have a lot in
> common under the covers!).
> 
> WRT the diagram, Smalltalk really had scant *direct* influence on Python; it
> would be better if it showed Python inheriting from Modula3 instead (which
> latter should surely be *somewhere* on the diagram; and Java should descend
> in part from Modula3 too).

A language with a lot of resemblance (possibly coincidental) to Python
is the sometimes-unfairly-maligned Javascript.  Python is in some ways
a grown-up version of Javascript, with more features for writing large
applications.  The object models are quite similar though.