[Tutor] Question about Python being object oriented

Eike Welk eike.welk at gmx.net
Sat May 8 18:47:51 CEST 2010


On Saturday May 8 2010 18:19:53 Tino Dai wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
>      My friend and I were having a disagreement about Python. Has Python
> always been an OO language or was it at one point a procedural language
>  like C? Thanks!

The Wikipedia article states: Yes, it was always an object oriented language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

However Python has a predecessor, the ABC language, which is not object 
oriented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_programming_language


Eike.


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