Python is readable

[Steve Howell]

On Mar 30, 11:25 pm, Lie Ryan <lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/21/2012 01:44 PM, Steve Howell wrote:
>
> > Also, don't they call those thingies "object" for a reason? ;)
>
> A subject is (almost?) always a noun, and so a subject is also an object.

It's true that words that can act as a subject can also act like
objects in other sentences.  That doesn't really answer my question,
though.  Why do we call programming objects "objects" instead of
calling them "subjects" or "nouns"?