Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/27/2024 5:47 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:40 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

In article <vadndu$1igfq$1@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:
Perl feels like C to me; Python feels like Basic or COBOL.

 You never had functions and classes as first-class objects in BASIC or
COBOL; you do in Python. You never had metaclasses in those languages; you
do in Python. You never had custom operator overloads in those languages;
you do in Python.

I suspect that he was more thinking philosophy than specific syntax
and functionality.
Also note that those languages has also evolved.
Traditional Basic incl. VMS Basic and Cobol 74 & 85 incl.
VMS Cobol does not have such features.
But later Microsoft Basic flavors added a lot. And Cobol
became object oriented with 2002.
VB.NET has classes, lambdas and operator overload. Python metaclass
does not have a direct equivalent in VB.NET but AppDomain, compiler
services and extension methods should together provide
similar functionality.
Arne