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The “does Python have variables?” debate

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Fri May 9 04:13:17 EDT 2014 
On 09/05/2014 02:02, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 08 May 2014 16:04:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at 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).
>

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/scientific-computings-future-can-any-coding-language-top-a-1950s-behemoth/

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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