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Python reminds me more of an object-oriented BASIC. Mostly imperative control flow. Lots of assignments. Lots of state manipulation.
by lispm 8y ago
Python reminds me more of an object-oriented BASIC. Mostly imperative control flow. Lots of assignments. Lots of state manipulation.
- kazinator 8y agoPerhaps the biggest computer science cluster-fuck in Python is that there is no syntactic distinction between instantiating/binding a variable and assigning to it. Python 3 makes it worse by adding some declarative stupidies nonlocal and global: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing#Python https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing#Python