Re: Not fully OO ?

[Thomas G. Willis]

On Sep 20, 5:23 am, candide <cand...@free.i nvalidwrote:

Excerpt quoted fromhttp://www.astro.ufl.e du/~warner/prog/python.html:
>
"About Python: Python is a high level scripting language with object
oriented features.
(...)
Python supports OOP and classes to an extent, but is not a full OOP
language."
>
Thanks for any comment.

My comment is "Who cares?"

I was always under the impression that if any language truly was "OO"
it would be smalltalk. And I don't derive any benefit from smalltalk
at all. I do however derive substantial benefit from other languages
that "OO zealots" would likely poo poo on including python.

[Aahz]

Re: Not fully OO ?

In article <aa7392e9-908d-441d-a1f5-e75ca47c0da9@d4 5g2000hsc.googl egroups.com>,
Thomas G. Willis <tom.willis@gma il.comwrote:

>On Sep 20, 5:23=A0am, candide <cand...@free.i nvalidwrote:

>>
>Excerpt quoted fromhttp://www.astro.ufl.e du/~warner/prog/python.html:
>>
>"About Python: Python is a high level scripting language with object
>oriented features.
>(...)
>Python supports OOP and classes to an extent, but is not a full OOP
>language."
>>
>Thanks for any comment.

>
>My comment is "Who cares?"
>
>I was always under the impression that if any language truly was "OO"
>it would be smalltalk. And I don't derive any benefit from smalltalk
>at all. I do however derive substantial benefit from other languages
>that "OO zealots" would likely poo poo on including python.

"...some experts might say a C++ program is not object-oriented without
inheritance and virtual functions. As one of the early Smalltalk
implementors myself, I can say they are full of themselves." --zconcept
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