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On 20/05/2015 05:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 9:54:57 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Ben Finney :
>>
>>> Right. So the box with an arrow coming out of it is a good metaphor for
>>> pointers -- *in languages that have pointers*, which Python does not.
>>>
>>> A box with an arrow coming out of it is a poor metaphor for Python's
>>> references, since a Python reference doesn't contain anything accessible
>>> to the programmer.
>>
>> Lisp doesn't have pointers. However:
>>
>>    <URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Cons-cells.svg>
>>
>>    <URL: http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/lisp/cons/>
>>
>>    <URL: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/331/fall11/notes/scheme/scheme2.ppt>
>>
>
> And what about Java?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/166033/value-semantics-and-pointer-semantics
>

And what about CORAL66/250?  How do you explain Python in terms of the 
original 66 and the 250 derivative?  What is the unladen air speed 
velocity of a swallow in flight?  Who actually gives a stuff?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence