Paul Graham on Python hackers

[Ville Vainio]

>>>>> "Mike" == Michael Geary <Mike at Geary.com> writes:

    zoltan> This a flamebait, right? Otherwise I would be interested
    zoltan> in the features which make Python similar to Java
    zoltan> (shudder).

    Mike> Ville Vainio:


    >> Abundant reference semantics. Of course this is true of all OOP

    Mike> What are "Abundant reference semantics"?

References are used all over the language:

MyClass o = GetObject();

MyClass o2 = o;  // o2 will point to the name object

This is much like in Python (being the optimal way of doing OOP after
all), and in contrast to Perl and C++ that have special syntax for
using references/pointers.

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