In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >IMHO, one of Python's greatest virtues is its ability to shift paradigms >in mid-program so that you can use the model that best fits your problem >space. IOW, Python is an OO language that doesn't jam it down your >throat, you can mix OO with imperative, functional, and list processing >coding models simultaneously. > >In my view, the doctrinaire', indeed religious, adherence to OO purity >has harmed our discipline considerably. Python was a nice breath of >fresh air when I discovered it exactly because it does not have this >slavish committment to an exclusively OO model.
+1 QOTW -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The way to build large Python applications is to componentize and loosely-couple the hell out of everything. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list