Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 04:24:58 EDT 2013


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Peter Cacioppi
<peter.cacioppi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Respectfully, no. I refer to the distinction between object based and object oriented programming. Wikipedia's entry is consistent with my understanding (not to argue by wiki-authority, but the terminology here isn't my personal invention).

Yep, but your definition of object oriented programming is
fundamentally based on support for polymorphism, and your opening
statement said that it's impossible without polymorphism :)

Anyway, what I sought to prove was that polymorphic object oriented
code can be written in C or any other language.

ChrisA



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