On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:29 AM, <humphreys...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:36:18 PM UTC, abisofile wrote: >> hi >> >> I'm new to programming.I've try a little BASIC so I want ask since >> Python is also interpreted lang if it's similar to BASIC. > > Hi. > I want to know if SMALL basic is the same as/like python.
You're responding to something from ten years ago. You'll do better to ask your own question on its own merits; a lot can happen in ten years. What's "SMALL basic"? (I found two languages of approximately that name, one by Microsoft and the other hosted on sourceforge. And there may be others.) It won't be "the same as" Python; if it were, one language or the other wouldn't exist. And "like Python" is a matter of degree and area - Pike is very like Python in semantics, but very unlike Python in syntax; REXX has a vaguely similar syntactic style, but extremely different semantics; ECMAScript has a few similarities, though not that many; etcetera. Are you familiar with some other language(s) and wanting to learn Python, or familiar with Python and wanting to learn this other language? Just for reference, by the way: being interpreted is almost completely non-significant. It's a feature of an implementation, not a language; plus, pretty much every modern interpreted language is first compiled into some kind of byte-code. (The only one I can think of that isn't would be some forms of shell script or batch file; I do remember editing batch files under DOS and having the changes happen live, not sure if that's true under any of the modern Windowses.) There are Python compilers (eg Cython), and I've seen C interpreters, so I think that proves there's no real difference there :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
