On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > One of the reasons multiple languages exist is because people find that > useful programming idioms and styles are *hard to use* or "ugly" in some > languages, so they create new languages with different syntax to make > those useful patterns easier to use. But syntax is not everything. > Whether you write: > > object.method(arg) // Python, VB, Ruby, Java > object#method arg // OCaml > object:method arg // Lua > method object arg // Haskell, Mercury > object method arg // Io > object->method(arg) // C++, PHP > method(object, arg) // Ada, Dylan > send method(arg) to object // XTalk family of languages
You missed the ever-so-special Objective C syntax: [object method arg1 withSomething arg2 withSomethingElse arg3] I'm sure I got that slightly wrong. I don't do Objective C, and my eyes glaze over every time I have to read it. And, of course, there's Postscript (stolen from Forth) stack syntax: arg3 arg2 arg1 function although it's more than just syntax; it's a totally different program architecture. A lot of people don't realize that PostScript is not just a printer file format, it's a real language with functions, variables, loops, and all that good stuff. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
