Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?
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Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

From: Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com>
Date: Sat Sep 10 2005 - 18:39:35 CEST

In article <97mav2-lc3.ln1@eskimo.tundraware.com>,
Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote:
>
>IMHO, one of Python's greatest virtues is its ability to shift paradigms
>in mid-program so that you can use the model that best fits your problem
>space. IOW, Python is an OO language that doesn't jam it down your
>throat, you can mix OO with imperative, functional, and list processing
>coding models simultaneously.
>
>In my view, the doctrinaire', indeed religious, adherence to OO purity
>has harmed our discipline considerably. Python was a nice breath of
>fresh air when I discovered it exactly because it does not have this
>slavish committment to an exclusively OO model.

+1 QOTW

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Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/
The way to build large Python applications is to componentize and
loosely-couple the hell out of everything.
Received on Thu Sep 29 18:34:30 2005