On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Sep., 12:14, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kay Schluehr wrote: >> > Answer: if you want to define an entity it has to be defined inside a >> > class. If you want to access an entity you have to use the dot >> > operator. Therefore Java is OO but Python is not. >> >> you're satirising the quoted author's cargo-cultish view of object >> orientation, right? >> >> </F> > > I wonder if the OO fetish hasn't already lost much of its magic > powers. What are the most powerful fetishes these days? A year ago I > would have suspected "purely functional" but I'm not sure it has > really caught on.
I think the current fetish is paralelism and erlang's share-nothing concurrency model. Or something like it. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Eduardo de Oliveira Padoan http://djangopeople.net/edcrypt/ http://stopforwarding.us/etiq.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
