Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > On 8/1/2010 7:08 PM, candide wrote: >> Python is an object oriented langage (OOL). The Python main >> implementation is written in pure and "old" C90. Is it for historical >> reasons? > > Python was first released before C++.
C++ was named C++ in 1983 (development on it started in 1979) and the first commercial implementation was released in 1985 [1]. Implementation of Python started in December 1989 [2]. So: no. (I was quite sure on this, since I started to program in C++ in the late 80's/early 90's IIRC). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_plus_plus#History [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29#History http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
