On 09/05/2014 02:02, Dennis Lee Bieber 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).
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/scientific-computings-future-can-any-coding-language-top-a-1950s-behemoth/
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