why are people still using classic classes?

[Simon Wittber]

> Unfortunately, if we should follow the recent advice about
> always using "super()" in the __init__ method, it's hard
> to do what you suggest (though it sounds like good advice)
> without resorting to extreme ugliness:

'import this' also provides some good advice:

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

It seems to me that python is not as simple/clean as it once was. It
has grown warts, for the sake of backwards compatibility. :(

Sw.