i have some confusion over this. sure a class is basically a classification, like for example an animal or flower. and an object/instance of that class is then for example a cat.
an object is an instance of a class. that i know, i also know how to program with classes etc. i am just confused about the term object-oriented. wouldnt class-oriented be more fitting? at least for java since what you do is divide everything into classes. in python i dont or at leats not as much. does object-oriented refer to that everything(strings, ints etc) are all objects? so there is a class string somewhere in the implementation rather than a primitive or somehing? are python functions objects? can a functional language be object-oriented or an objectoriented language be functional? one definition of OO is a language that passes messages between objects. but not necessarily that is has to pass message sbetween classes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
