Perl open source contest
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Feb 3 15:30:33 UTC 2000
"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> FWIW, Python is basically Smalltalk without the GUI.
Ouch. So it's not as similar as I thought. But I'll back it up a
little even so:
1. Compared to *Perl*. Python is extremely like Smalltalk. The
subject said Perl, so it was at least worth pointing out.
2. Compared to other OO languages like C++ or Java, Python still has a
lot of Smalltalk's charms. It doesn't have static type checking. It
leaves everything as an object, even if you can't extend system
classes--thus you can stick an integer into a generic collection.
Really, if you had to pick one language other than Smalltalk to work in,
what would it be? I haven't worked extensively in Python, but it was
what I used before a good open-source Smalltalk became available (yay
Squeak!).
Lex
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