On Tue, 12 May 2015 12:23 am, zipher wrote: > On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 1:11:26 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Monday 11 May 2015 10:57, zipher wrote: >> > I guess everyone expects this behavior since Python implemented this >> > idea of "everything is an object", but I think this branch of OOP (on >> > the >> > branch of the Tree of Programming Languages) has to be chopped off. >> > The idea of everything is an object is backwards (unless your in a LISP >> > machine). Like I say, it's trying to be too pure and not practical. >> >> Python is in production use in hundreds of thousands of organisations. It >> has been heavily used for over twenty years, in everything from quick and >> dirty one line scripts to hundred-thousand LOC applications. > > Yeah, so was COBOL. Boom.
So *is* COBOL. (Except for the one-line scripts part.) COBOL is nearly as old as Fortran, half a century old, and reports of its death are grossly exaggerated. It might not be a nice language, or a particularly modern language (even though it now has OOP features!) but, like the cockroach, it's hard to kill. It's a running gag in IT circles that "the imminent death of COBOL" is predicted every year, and will continue to be predicted every year well into the 2100s. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
