Abandoning Python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 13:11:40 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> Ed Keith wrote:
>> Have you looked at Falcon (http://www.falconpl.org/)?
> 
> This paragraph on the first page doesn't exactly fire me with enthuiasm:
> 
>> Falcon provides six integrated programming paradigms: procedural,
>> object oriented, prototype oriented, functional, tabular and message
>> oriented. And you don't have to master all of them;
> 
> ...until you want to read someone *else's* code, that is.


The same might be said about Python, which supports procedural, OO and 
functional styles out of the box. Prototype-oriented is so close to OO 
that you can fake it in Python:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4629224/prototypal-programming-in-python

I'm not sure what they mean by tabular, perhaps something like Resolver 
System's Python-in-a-spreadsheet?

http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/


And presumably anyone who has played around with GUI programming in 
Python will have run into message oriented coding.



-- 
Steven