Is Python an object based programming langauge?

[David C. Ullrich]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:40:57 +0100, anton at vredegoor.doge.nl (Anton
Vredegoor) wrote:

>On 14 Mar 2002 01:55:03 GMT, bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote:
>
>>Sorry, but that is not true of Delphi. Did you ever work Delphi from
>>the command line? You can easily write console apps that do not use GUI windows:
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>>Well, please don't add to the confusion about Delphi's capabilities ;-)
>>You could put someone off that might like it ;-)
>
>Well I like Delphi myself and I don't want to put anyone off!
>However I just wanted to state that its very unnatural in Delphi to
>write a console app. For example open the IDE and click
>
>file-new-
>
>and then try to click on something that starts a new console
>application -). 

Console apps are not the only way to write Delphi programs that
start, do something, then exit. I do it all the time, it's very
very easy, and I'm not nearly smart enough to be able to figure
out how to write a console app in Delphi:

You simply edit the dpr file ("View Project Source") - remove
_everything_ (there's not that much there to begin with) and
in between the "begin" and "end" put whatever it is you want
the program to do. (You can add references to other units...).

It's the Application.This and Application.That in the dpr that 
sets up the message loop, etc - remove that and it's gone.

For some sorts of things I like this _better_ than a console
app - no GUI window, no console popping up either. (These
programs tend to get associated with Folder in the registry;
I right-click on a folder, select whatever and all the files
in the folder are processed in some way - no muss.)

>I do not want to criticize Delphi, I do want to state that object
>oriented programming can be so tightly coupled to GUI style program
>design that it can give the (false) impression that GUI style program
>design and OOP are unavoidably connected.
>
>Anton.


David C. Ullrich