On 2009-01-10, Joe Strout <j...@strout.net> wrote: > Mark Wooding wrote: > >> As an aside, I don't notice anywhere near as much confusion in Lisp and >> Scheme groups, which might be surprising since Lisp and Scheme have >> precisely the same data model, argument passing convention, and >> assignment semantics, as Python has. > > Nor is there anywhere near as much confusion in the REALbasic > community (with which I'm most familiar), which also has the > same semantics for reference types (which in RB is everything > except numbers, colors, and Boolean).
It's not that there's a lot of confusion, it's just that we spend a lot of time talking about it. Programming in Python is so much more productive that we've got a lot more spare time that people who use other languages. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
