Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

[John DeRosa]

On Wed, 30 May 2007 20:41:32 -0600, Frank Swarbrick
<infocat at earthlink.net> wrote:

>Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Frank Swarbrick <infocat at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Then you'd really love COBOL!
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Frank
>>> COBOL programmer for 10+ years
>> 
>> Hey, did you hear about the object-oriented version of COBOL?  They call it
>> "ADD ONE TO COBOL".
>
>I know you were joking, but the COBOL 2002 standard implements OO.
>It's OK, but quite obviously "bolted on".

Exactly the same situation as the OO in C++...