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On 08 May 2014 16:04:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>Personally, I think that trying to be general and talk about "many other 
>languages" is a failing strategy. Better to be concrete: C, Pascal, 
>Algol, Fortran, VB (I think) are good examples of the "value in a box at 
>a fixed location" model. Of those, Algol, Pascal and Fortran are either 
>obsolete or legacy, and C is by far the most well-known by people here. 
>(For some reason, few people seem to migrate from VB to Python.) Hence, 
>"C-like".
>

	Obsolete and Legacy? Fortran still receives regular standards updates
(currently 2008, with the next revision due in 2015).

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