From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T10:30:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Avdi B. Grimm" <avdi@avdi.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby


> >  Python was always OO insofar as its implementation of OO can be
> >  called OO.
> 
> Would that this were so.  However, it's not; and no amount of claiming
> that it was will change history.  In the words of the Python FAQ:

(snip)

I agree with you to the extent that I'm able. (I know
little about Python.)

I wonder if we could paraphrase the above quote by
saying, "A horse is a flying animal insofar as its
implementation of flying can be called flying."  :)

Hal