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Thanks Bob and Liam. I was wondering myself.
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:09
PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Question about BASIC
and Python
At 06:13 PM 8/1/2005, Nathan Pinno wrote:
Hi all,
I had a
co-worker say to me at work that Python was related to or based upon BASIC.
Is this true, and if not, how can I tell my friend why they are
similar?
There are many versions of BASIC (Beginners
All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) (or something like that). What most
have in common with Python (and a lot of other programming languages)
is:
variables of various data types
statements
expressions with
numeric, string, relational and boolean operations
sequential
execution
control structures for conditionals and
loops
subroutines
input/output
arrays
some BASIC versions also
add
exception handling
an attempt at OO
Python differs in
the
use of indentation to convey control
structure
dictionaries
object-oriented to the max
builtin object
methods
all items are objects
all objects may be dynamically
altered
object properties may be added anytime
modules
big library of
modules
and many more
Bob Gailer
phone 510 978 4454
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