On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Or perhaps that should be a sad face smiley :-( How much time we would all > save if academics and language designers would only stick to a single > consistent terminology across all languages.
That's like wishing that every human spoke the same language, instead of having English, French, Italian, Polish, Serbian, Korean, and a host of others. The problem isn't the languages; the variety of languages reflects a variety of concepts being communicated, and to unify the languages spoken would entail dispensing with that variety. The terminology isn't consistent because there are myriad variations between the concepts. Is it useful to talk about "multiple inheritance" as a concept? I believe I've yet to meet two distinct languages that have identical MI semantics. Does each language need its own word for that term so we don't have any sort of inconsistencies? Or do all languages have to implement the exact same functionality? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
