Not fully OO ?

Thomas G. Willis tom.willis at gmail.com
Sat Sep 20 11:09:47 EDT 2008


On Sep 20, 5:23 am, candide <cand... at free.invalid> wrote:
> Excerpt quoted fromhttp://www.astro.ufl.edu/~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.



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