From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T05:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: New user questions

Michael Neumann wrote:
> 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 ;-)

If we get lucky, Gabriel Renzi will post to this topic...

Zach