Python design philosophy

[Eric Lee Green]

Gordon McMillan wrote:
> 
> Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 
> >Steve Juranich wrote:
> >> I am *brand* new to python (as of Sunday), and I just got to the
> >> section in the tutorial about classes.  I was wondering why there
> >> really isn't such an idea as a "private" member of classes?
> >
> >Mostly because Python doesn't "really" have classes. What Python
> >"really" has are hash tables whose entries are objects (either methods
> >or other data objects), and some syntactic sugar [...]
> 
> By this logic, all C++ has is pointers and some syntactic sugar.

Exactly :-).

C++ is syntactic sugar for "C". As should be obvious from the fact that most
early C++ compilers generated "C" as their output :-). 

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