"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