Regarding Python is scripting language or not

Arnaud Delobelle arnodel at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 18 03:39:40 EDT 2009


Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> writes:

> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> If you mean 'be an instance of a class', which I think is the most
>> natural reading, then Python *is* object-oriented and, if I understand
>> what I have read correctly (so that ints are just (unboxed) ints and not
>> members of an int class), Java *is not*!
>
> A friend of mine calls Java and C++ class centric programming languanges. ;)

It's unfair on C++ given that one can write perfectly good C++ programs
without classes, just as in Python.

-- 
Arnaud



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