On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:49:21 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > On Feb 8, 2010, at 8:39 PM, AON LAZIO <aonla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have thought funny things >>> If we think all languages are like a family > > Then it would be a very incestuous family fore sure. > >>> I could draft them like this (Python base) >>> >>> C is Python's Mom >>> C++ : Dad > > Not that much C++ in Python, IMHO. If that's for the OO part, then the > closer to Python's object model I can think of is javascript.
I thought that Javascript didn't even have inheritance until recently? Like in the last year? > Historically, Python comes from ABC, which itself comes from SETL. > >>> Pascal/Assembly : Grandparents > > Assembly ? What about binary machine code then ?-) I'd say assembly is more like the distant answer, back when we still had tails and lived in trees and worried about being eaten by eagles. >>> C# : Uncle >>> Java : Ant > > Interesting typo here !-) > > Hmmm... Python predates both C# and Java. Ok, technically speaking > nothing prevents an uncle or aunt from being younger than their nephews, > and I even saw the case a couple time - but that's far from being the > common case. > >>> Ruby: Cousin >>> Perl : Girlfriend > > Then it's kind of a very passionate love-hate relationship - bordering > on pathological FWIW !-) I'd say that the girlfriend is more likely Lisp or Haskell -- some of the more functional aspects of Python have been inspired by these languages. > Now you forgot the whole Lisp / ML heritage - most FP stuff -, and of > course Simula and Smalltalk. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
