IsPython really O-O?

[Matt Gerrans]

> 39. Re graphics:  A picture is worth 10K words - but only those
>     to describe the picture.  Hardly any sets of 10K words can be
>     adequately described with pictures.
>   -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

Hey, when did a picture's word-value get upgraded by an order of magnitude?
(or was he referring to the  Chinese version of that cliché?)

- mfg