HackingYodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does any single language do a better job in > Python's weaker areas? Would anyone care to suggest one to supplement > Python.
My first real OO language was Smalltalk. But the existing Smalltalk implementations all have some severe shortcomings. Either they are incomplete (Squeak), have no active community (Smalltalk/X) or they are real expensive and bulky (VisualWorks, VisualAge). But conceptually all these Smalltalk systems give me the feeling "thats what OO should be like". Python OTOH was the best compromise I could find, beeing reasonably OO, fairly complete and free - and I am very happy with it. I am one order of magnitude more productive in Python than in Java but a little less productive than in Smalltalk. To wet your appetite let me telly you, that in Python you have much shorter turnaround times than in Java, because you don't have to compile your code after you fixed a bug. In Smalltalk you don't even have to restart your application, i.e. developping and running an application melts together. It's like "doing brain surgery to yourself" as someone said. So if you are interested to look at something even more radically OO than Python you might want to give Squeak (http://www.squeak.org) a try. Alan Kay, the guy wo coined the term "Object oriented" is one if its fathers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
