Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier (was Re: 50 people to watch)

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Robert Kiesling wrote:

> Looks `way cool, but I'm not yet sold on python.  What does Python
> offer that Smalltalk doesn't (that's the only other widely known
> object oriented environment I can think of).

Python is compiled down to a bytecode level, so it's faster for one
thing. Smalltalk can be godawful slow. Also, it's not OO-only. It would be
more appropriate to think of Python as an OO language that isn't (like
Smalltalk and Java) fanatical about the OO to the point of
uselessness. Unlike Java, it offers multiple inheritane (not a bandaid
workaround like Java has).

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