What other languages use the same data model as Python?

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 1 18:37:17 EDT 2011


Terry Reedy wrote:

> While Guido does not, that I know of, credit CLU as Python's direct 
> inspiration, I think it (and Barbara Liskov) as the originator of 
> Python's data model. I believe she thought of the call-by-object 
> semantics as something of an innovation.

I don't think she can claim credit for that, seeing as as Lisp
was built around it. She may have invented the *term* "call by
object" (unnecessarily, in my opinion) but the idea wasn't new.

-- 
Greg



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