Could Python supplant Java?

[James J. Besemer]

Mark McEahern wrote:

> But consider a file-like object (the canonical example of polymorphism).
> All I care about is that this thing can be opened, closed, read, written to,
> etc.  Do I really care that it's a "file" type?  Nope.

But THAT's a red herring.

Java and C++ DO have true polymorphism.

You don't have to live without it in early binding languages you merely have to
declare your intent (e.g., to implement a particular interface).

--jb

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