In article <mailman.9805.1399597367.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 08 May 2014 16:04:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> declaimed the following: > > >Personally, I think that trying to be general and talk about "many other > >languages" is a failing strategy. Better to be concrete: C, Pascal, > >Algol, Fortran, VB (I think) are good examples of the "value in a box at > >a fixed location" model. Of those, Algol, Pascal and Fortran are either > >obsolete or legacy, and C is by far the most well-known by people here. > >(For some reason, few people seem to migrate from VB to Python.) Hence, > >"C-like". > > > > Obsolete and Legacy? Fortran still receives regular standards updates > (currently 2008, with the next revision due in 2015). Ars Technica article a couple of days ago, about Fortran, and what is likely to replace it: http://tinyurl.com/mr54p96 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
