[Tutor] Question about Python being object oriented

[bob gailer]

On 5/8/2010 12:19 PM, 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!

OO and procedural are not mutually exclusive!

 From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming:
"Procedural programming is imperative programming in which the program 
is built from one or more procedures (also known as subroutines or 
functions). The terms are often used as synonyms, but the use of 
procedures has a dramatic effect on how imperative programs appear and 
how they are constructed. Heavily procedural programming, in which state 
changes are localized to procedures or restricted to explicit arguments 
and returns from procedures, is known as structured programming. From 
the 1960s onwards, structured programming and modular programming in 
general, have been promoted as techniques to improve the maintainability 
and overall quality of imperative programs. Object-oriented programming 
extends this approach."

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Bob Gailer
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