I think ruby does
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@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? > > > > -- > Steven > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
