In article <aaac5b77-0b2e-48fa-9e01-b8cd1cd68...@v42g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, "Russ P." <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can claim that Python is not strictly object oriented until it > gets encapsulation (in the sense of data hiding). That is simply a > fact, and no amount of pleading or obfuscation will change it. I have no idea if Python is strictly anything. What I do know is that it's a useful tool. I'll take useful over OOO (Object Oriented Orthodoxy) any day. People get all worked up over OO as if it were some kind of religion. If I want religion, I'll go to shul. What I want from a programming language is a tool that lets me get my work done. If I transgress against some sacred tenet of OO religion, it is, as Rev. Dupas would say, all right. Earlier in this thread, somebody (name elided to avoid me getting pegged for a indulging in a spelling flame): > Bare in mind also, that enfocing access control / policing as you > called it has a performance hit as the machine (the Python vm) > has to perform checks each time members of an object are accessed. All I can say to that is, "He who bares his mind, soon gets to the naked truth". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
