I would assume that they're refering to the fact that even the basic data types such as int are derived from object, and hence have methods:
int.__class__.__base__
<type 'object'>
Java, for example, has both an Integer object and a basic int data type. One word. Yuck.
Heh heh. Yeah, I can remember that annoyance well. I believe Java 1.5's supposed to have auto-boxing and -unboxing though, which should make this less of a pain...
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