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Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!

• To: danny666@v... (Danny Ayers)
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <EBEPLGMHCDOJJJPCFHEFMENLICAA.danny666@v...> from "Danny Ayers" at Oct 23, 2002 04:02:49 PM

Danny Ayers scripsit:
> 
> sayeth the functional programmer :
> >Python is essentially Scheme with indentation instead of parentheses.
> 
> sayeth the OO programmer :
> Python is essentially Java with indentation instead of braces.
> 
> sayeth the procedural programmer :
> >Python is essentially Pascal with indentation instead of (errm) newlines.

Yes, these are true too.  But Python 2.x has continuations (somewhat hidden,
but they're there, aka a non-LIFO control regime.  No other language in
non-research use has that except Scheme.

Java, as befits a C-heritage language, doesn't even have closures
(well, inner classes are closures, I guess), much less continuations.
Pascal has closures but not continuations.

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    -- Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words"

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