IsPython really O-O?

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Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote in message news:<uzo5pmzhe.fsf at python.net>...
> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
> 
> > ianb at colorstudy.com (Ian Bicking) wrote:
> > > If you look under the hood, Python is much more like Smalltalk than
> > > Java. 
> > 
> > I'm having trouble parsing that.  Which of the following did you mean?
> > 
> > 1) Python is more like Smalltalk that Python is like Java
> > 2) Python is more like Smalltalk than Java is like Smalltalk
> 
> I think 1).
> 
> Cheers,
> M.

both mean the same thing. Python is closer to smalltalk than Java is
so the ST guru buddie was a bit off base to be compairing Py to J.