On 06/08/2016 04:10, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 10:13 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Marco Sulla
<mail.python....@marco.sulla.e4ward.com> wrote:
I want to clarify that when I say "different from the other
languages", I mean "different from the most used languages", that in
my mind are C/C++, C#, Java, PHP and Javascript, mainly.
Ah, well, that's because those are all one family of languages. If
instead you were familiar with four LISPy languages, you'd have a
completely different set of expectations.
Furthermore, that's only six languages out of, what, a couple of thousand
known programming languages?
And even languages clearly in the C family, like Objective-C, D, Swift, Java
and Go, can end up using quite different syntax and execution models.
It amuses me when people know a handful of languages, all clearly derived
from each other, and think that's "most" languages. That's like somebody
who knows Dutch, Afrikaans and German[1] being surprised that Russian,
Cantonese, Hebrew and Vietnamese don't follow the same language rules
as "most languages".
The analogy isn't quite right. Most programming languages use English
keywords.
It's more like why US English uses words like "windshield", "hood" and
"trunk" instead of the proper "windscreen", "bonnet" and "boot".
Oddly, for all its dynamism, Python doesn't allow aliases for its
keywords to allow for personal taste.
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