Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a
lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other
form of "like in ".
Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were
not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if i
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a
> lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other
> form of "like in ".
>
> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were
> not even inspired by othe
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were
> not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if it is
> "merely" a best-of collection of language features or if there are
> actually inventions that have not - or hardly - existed
It's true that most features of python are intentionally borrowed from
other languages. If I can think of anything that I believe to be
specific to python, I would say it is the combination of high level
datatypes together with an extremely simple syntax. Actually, this
combination often results in
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a
> lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other
> form of "like in ".
>
> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were
> not even inspired by oth
In the Tutorial, the BFDL says:
Strings can be subscripted (indexed); like in C, the first character of
a string has subscript (index) 0. There is no separate character type;
a character is simply a string of size one. Like in Icon, substrings
can be specified with the slice notation: two indices
Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a
> lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other
> form of "like in ".
Since Python was released well before Java, saying that a feature in
Python is "
Although somewhat more elegant, Python slices follow Matlab's slice
notation. In simpler cases they are identical.
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Why does Python have to "add" anything, if it makes "that which came
before" more easily accessible/usable? Perhaps that is its innovation.
Is that not sufficient?
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Might the doctest modules functionality have first occured in Python?
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>>"like the hashtable in java"
People don't give a reference to a language feature only because it
added/invented it but also because it is a popular one that many are
familiar with.
Java did not invent HashTables. They existed long before and were
available to most languages before Java. Neither
> Actually, I can't think off the top of my head, any
> feature in the Java language (and I am making no
> assertions about the implementation of specific
> instances) that was truly innovative.
Let's see...it has bytecode compliation. Oh...not original.
Okay, howsabout cross-platform neutra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
>> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were
>> not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if it is
>> "merely" a best-of collection of language features
Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> >> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were
> >> not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if it is
> >> "merely" a best-of
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Cameron Laird wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were
not even ins
> Well, Java does have this great feature called "market-hype"...
I ... concede.
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Wildemar> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts
Wildemar> that were not even inspired by other languages?
I'd say Guido's willingness to borrow heavily from the best ideas present in
other languages ranks right up there as one of its key concepts.
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Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a
> lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other
> form of "like in ".
>
> Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed,
Esoterically speaking, you should better d
Michael Tobis wrote:
> Although somewhat more elegant, Python slices follow Matlab's slice
> notation. In simpler cases they are identical.
>
> mt
I think in Matlab, as in Fortran 90, i:j refers to the elements from i
up to and including j, unlike Python, where j is excluded. Another
language with
Aahz wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Cameron Laird wrote:
>>
>>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>>Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
>Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts
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