Python design philosophy

[Grant Edwards]

In article <395B6960.26AB52C1 at estinc.com>, Eric Lee Green wrote:

>> >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 :-). 

And C is just semantic sugar for assembly...

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