IsPython really O-O?

[goonfist]

Hee! 

Indeed by Smalltalks standards, many OO things , python included ,
aren't reeeeealy truly
objecto-puro-oriento , but there we have it! Endorsement!

That said , python doesnt encourage you to directly fiddle with
'properties',
but rather fiddle with 'methods' , so it's pretty good like that.

James_Althoff at i2.com wrote in message news:<mailman.1005592816.19340.python-list at python.org>...
> Kent Smith wrote:
> >A Smalltalk guru in our organization looked at Python last weekend (after
>  I
> >had made a big scene saying that it may be a solution to some of our
> >cross-platform issues) and came away saying that it was no more
> >object-oriented than Java.  I sputtered around a bit but could hardly make
> a
> 
> I worked in the LRG group (Learning Research Group, aka the Smalltalk team)
> at Xerox PARC in the late seventies / early eighties under Alan Kay and
> Adele Goldberg and helped design and implement the original Smalltalk-80.
> 
> Therefore, by the powers vested in me by no one in particular, I hereby
> proclaim Python to be
> 
> "Plenty-good OO!"
> 
> Helpfully yours,
> 
> Jim