What other languages use the same data model as Python?

[Alec Taylor]

I think ruby does

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Python uses a data model of "name binding" and "call by object" (also
> known as "call by sharing"). I trust I don't need to define my terms, but
> just in case:
>
> http://effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm
> http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm
>
>
> Now, this is different from languages like C and Pascal, which is based
> on variables, or Forth, which explicitly manipulates a stack. Quite
> often, when people want to impress upon others that Python is not C, they
> will say:
>
> "Python's data model is different from other languages"
>
> which is perfectly correct, if you think of C as "other languages". But
> it's equally correct to say that Python's data model is the same as other
> languages. As I understand it, Python and Ruby have the same data model.
> So does Java, so long as you only consider objects and ignore unboxed
> native values. I believe (but could be wrong) that another language of
> about the same vintage as Python, Emerald, also uses the same model.
> That's not surprising, because I believe that Emerald (just like Python)
> was strongly influenced by CLU.
>
> What other languages use the same, or mostly similar, data model as
> Python?
>
>
>
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