Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes,
> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Robert Kiesling wrote:
>
> > Looks `way cool, but I'm not yet sold on python. What does Python
> > offer that Smalltalk doesn't (that's the only other widely known
> > object oriented environment I can think of).
>
> Python is compiled down to a bytecode level, so it's faster for one
> thing. Smalltalk can be godawful slow. Also, it's not OO-only. It would be
> more appropriate to think of Python as an OO language that isn't (like
> Smalltalk and Java) fanatical about the OO to the point of
> uselessness. Unlike Java, it offers multiple inheritane (not a bandaid
> workaround like Java has).
The syntax looks something like the older 4GL languages for M$-DOS
databases. I've compliled and am installing it on my Solaris machine,
so I'll let you know when I'm successful.
Apologies for the E-mail address. Sendmail took it upon itself to
re-configure itself... don't ask me how! I hope the Reply-to: field
is sufficient in the meantime. I'm going to try to get that
corrected today.
Robert
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