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They just mean "this language looks in general like Python." You're overthinking it.

It's like saying that JavaScript looks C-ish or Java-ish. It definitely doesn't look exactly the same; if you see e.g.

    var result = [].slice.apply(vals, 0);
then you can be highly certain that that's JS and not Java or C. But the idea of having blocks of code enclosed in curly braces, which are formed out of statements usually delimited by semicolons (except for special forms like if-statements and for-loops which don't need to be followed with a terminal semicolon), etc. is very much a C-style thing.


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