UserLinux chooses Python as "interpretive language" of choice

Ville Vainio ville.spammehardvainio at spamtut.fi
Mon Dec 22 05:13:12 EST 2003


"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> writes:

> One of them. There's a bit of this and that, but overall
> it seems a bit more Perlish than Pythonish. I've never
> gotten a satisfactory answer about how it's "more
> object-oriented" than Python, unless they mean that
> it uses methods instead of built-in functions.

It's because it has object orientation built in, unlike Python where
it is just an add-on. Object orientation is more integrated in Ruby.

And Ruby is mostly based on Smalltalk, unlike Python. Smalltalk was a
pretty object oriented in its time.

And yes, I am being sarcastic. Ruby people mostly don't seem to have
any real arguments, apart from the Smalltalk mantra.

> It's still a non-starter, though

Yes it is. I think a more useful approach would be a preprocessor that
fixed the screwups that newbies make (pychecker --fixtrivial?), until
they learn. Nobody would use it, but it would be nice to have as
something people could be referred to until they see the error of
their ways.

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Ville Vainio   http://www.students.tut.fi/~vainio24




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