Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > "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[...] > What other languages use the same, or mostly similar, data model as > Python?
Count in Common Lisp and Scheme. I would say that, considering currently most popular languages and platforms, Python's data model is in the majority. It is only the people coming from a C++ background that tend to be confused by it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list