python without OO

[Casey Hawthorne]

"The object-oriented programming paradigm has an undeserved reputation
as being complicated; most of the complexity of languages such as C++
and Java has nothing to do with their object orientation but comes
instead from the type declarations and the mechanisms to work around
them.  This is a prime example of how Scheme's approach of removing
restrictions compares with the "piling feature on top of feature"
needed in other languages, such as the C++ template mechanism."

"Handbook of Programming Languages, Volume IV: Functional and Logic
Programming Languages"
Peter H. Salus, editor
1998
page 63

Similarly, now, Java's generics!

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Regards,
Casey