Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python? Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 10:37:17 +1200 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <9265kvFv8gU1@mid.individual.net> References: <4dbd1dbf$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net O28Q2GPxTAvHchhTpZKe+A2eE9VizrYTngQ2Eg2TLtL+diTxYj Cancel-Lock: sha1:O0KQkTivC6wPvHuU2OsGUWAsMdQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:4423 Terry Reedy wrote: > While Guido does not, that I know of, credit CLU as Python's direct > inspiration, I think it (and Barbara Liskov) as the originator of > Python's data model. I believe she thought of the call-by-object > semantics as something of an innovation. I don't think she can claim credit for that, seeing as as Lisp was built around it. She may have invented the *term* "call by object" (unnecessarily, in my opinion) but the idea wasn't new. -- Greg