From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T05:00:01+09:00
Subject: Re: New user questions

Ben Giddings wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
>> IMHO one of the major advantages of Ruby is that it's OO all over while
>> Perl's OO was retrofitted.
> 
> 
> Does anybody know offhand if Python's OO was retrofitted?  I used Python 
> back in '97, but don't really remember the details too well.  Python's 
> OO sure has that "tacked on" feel, what with the underscores and "self" 
> parameters and all, but maybe it was just a really odd design decision?

Uhm, I used Python 1.5, somewhere in 1997 or 1998. At that time, not 
everything was an object as it seems to be now (since Python 2.0).

Probably matz knows more about Python ;-)

Regards,

   Michael