On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:50:06 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:08:00 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> > declaimed the following: > >>I Java terms, all Python values are boxed. That's a very usual pattern >>in virtually all programming languages (apart from FORTRAN). >> >> > FORTRAN, C, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, ALGOL, BCPL, REXX, VMS DCL, > probably R, Matlab, APL. > > I never encountered the term "boxed" until trying to read some of > the O'Reilly books on Java. > > In my world, Java and Python are the ones that are not "common".
Indeed. Its not just older languages from the 60s and 70s with value-type variables. Newer languages intended as systems languages, like Rust and Go, do the same. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
