> But there is no single "OOP" paradigm. Java vs Python vs Ruby vs > Javascript, they're all subtly different.
"Subtly" is the keyword there. Predominately, they are the same -- they try to make a pure OOP object model in an imagined abstract space. >> Wikipedia suggests that there are four main types of programming >> languages. OOP language and imperative languages are the first two. >> I'm suggesting a synthesis and unification of both those into single >> language. To do that will require a data/object model that makes a >> single taxonomy of the data/machine architecture with the abstraction >> architecture -- two ends of the spectrum. I call it a unified data >> model. > > This sounds a lot like Java, which has primitive values and objects. Are > you familiar with it? I'm not sure what you're suggesting is so > revolutionary. Lol, apparently you're not all that familiar with Python history, because Python had it also, it called them types and objects (see the docs on v2.2). If you read my thread I just sent out, you'll get what I'm after a bit more. But basically, is that python ignored its Zen: that practicality beats purity. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
