From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-07-03T02:56:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Why I don't use Ruby.

gabriele renzi wrote:
>>+ it's purely object-oriented (unlike Python & Perl), thus functional or 
>>procedural guys might get offended or turned off.
> 
> actually the python guys would strongly disagree. Python is pure-oo
> since v2.2 IIRC

Whoa, depends on how you define 'pure-oo'.  Maybe they are OO under the 
covers, but the interface (which has remained backwards-compatible) sure 
isn't very OO.

Take for example, 'len', it's not a property of Strings or Arrays, it's 
a function you apply to them to get their length.  Same goes for 'map', 
it's not a property of lists or arrays, it's just a function.

Maybe behind the scenes Integers are now objects, but that sure doesn't 
make the language seem very 'pure-oo'.

Ben