Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Message-ID: <1922878.ANPrPdclya@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 08:57:04 +0200 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&. <6c39594f-79cb-4d4f-967e-bbc3f68cdbdf@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> <4fed59b7$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <2662370.TGmo96CKe1@PointedEars.de> <87wr2oecf6.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> <4FEF7117.7000109@jollybox.de> <87bok0qr62.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Followup-To: comp.lang.python MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 Jul 2012 08:57:05 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: cf1467e5.newsspool3.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=Nedi3Hdmd>KX36K@\WTHGJMcF=Q^Z^V3H4Fo<]lROoRA8kFL@ On 6/30/2012 19:37, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ben Finney >> wrote: >>> I know of no programming language that >>> would give a newcomer to Python that expectation. So where is the norm >>> you're referring to? >> >> C, SQL, REXX, and many other languages. > > Some others: Lua, Javascript, Ruby, O'Caml. JFTR: Contrary to popular belief there is no programming language named "Javascript". In your second point, you are talking about ECMAScript implementations; one of which is _JavaScript_, Netscape's and later Mozilla.org's ECMAScript implementation. Other implementations include that of Microsoft, JScript. -- PointedEars Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.