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Subject: Re: New VSI post on Youtube
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:02:46 -0400
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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