On Sun, 2011-05-01, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/1/2011 4:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: ... >> What other languages use the same, or mostly similar, data model as >> Python? > > Natural languages. That is why I think it is better to think of Python > as an algorithm language or information-object manipulation language > rather than as just a linear-memory machine language.A linear memory > with bytes addressed from 0 to max-int or max-long is an explicit part > of the definition of assembly languages and C. It is no part of the > definition of Python.
It's not part of the definition of C either -- C supports segmented memory (pre-386 Intel) and separate code/data address spaces. (Even if most C users tend not to think of it that way.) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
