Regarding Python is scripting language or not

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Asun Friere a écrit :
(snip)

> OTOH the whole notion of defining OO by the use of classes
> automatically excludes from consideration prototype-based OO languages
> (eg. Self) which arguably offer a purer approach to OO than class
> centric languages.

FWIW, there's no notion of "class" in the minimal (and only commonly 
agreed AFAIK) definitions of OO:

1/ an object id defined by an id, a state and a behaviour
2/ objects communicate by sending messages to each others