>>>>> "Lex" == Lex Spoon <lex at cc.gatech.edu> writes:

Lex> FWIW, Python is basically Smalltalk without the GUI.

No.  Python is a hybrid OO language.  There are still "primitives" and
"objects".  Unless something happened in a recent Python that lets you
add methods to "3".  

Python also has a built-in syntax that will *not* fit on the back of a
business card, unlike Smalltalk.  A full expression syntax with many
levels of precedence.

This puts Python in the C++, Perl, and Java camp.  Hybrid languages.
Not Smalltalk.  And the difference is not just the GUI.

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