IsPython really O-O?

[Erik Max Francis]

kentsmith at dxsys.com wrote:

> A Smalltalk guru in our organization looked at Python last weekend
> (after I
> had made a big scene saying that it may be a solution to some of our
> cross-platform issues) and came away saying that it was no more
> object-oriented than Java.

Java _is_ object-oriented, so I don't see how this is a negative.  Note
that object orientation looks a little different in message-oriented
languages (such as Smalltalk or Objective C) rather than in
call-oriented languages (like C++, Java, or Python).  Those on either
side of the fence can sometimes be languagist; some Smalltalk users in
particular can be extremely purist about what makes an object-oriented
language.  Perhaps your Smalltalk fan is referring to the fact that
Python (like Java) is not the same type of object-oriented language as
Smalltalk, but that doesn't mean that Python (again, like Java) is not
object oriented.

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