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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
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Subject: Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?
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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> "Python's data model is different from other languages"
>
> which is perfectly correct, if you think of C as "other languages". But 
> it's equally correct to say that Python's data model is the same as other 
> languages. As I understand it, Python and Ruby have the same data model. 
> So does Java, so long as you only consider objects[...]
> What other languages use the same, or mostly similar, data model as 
> Python?

Count in Common Lisp and Scheme.

I would say that, considering currently most popular languages and
platforms, Python's data model is in the majority.  It is only the
people coming from a C++ background that tend to be confused by it.