Evan Driscoll wrote: > On 6/30/2012 19:37, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> >> wrote: >>> I know of no programming language that >>> would give a newcomer to Python that expectation. So where is the norm >>> you're referring to? >> >> C, SQL, REXX, and many other languages. > > Some others: Lua, Javascript, Ruby, O'Caml.
JFTR: Contrary to popular belief there is no programming language named "Javascript". In your second point, you are talking about ECMAScript implementations; one of which is _JavaScript_, Netscape's and later Mozilla.org's ECMAScript implementation. Other implementations include that of Microsoft, JScript. <http://PointedEars.de/es-matrix> -- PointedEars Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list