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Cameron Laird

I've been advised that
<URL: http://www.smallscript.com/Language Comparison Chart.asp >
is open to correction in its Python column. Who wants to tackle
this? Python certainly supports interaction, we have plenty to boast
about in regard to foreign functions, we offer GUIs in abundance, ...

They seem rather liberal. If Python supports private methods and
variables (and JavaScript does native threads!?!) (but somebody seems
to have it in for C++), we might as well argue it gives root classes,
too.

I think if I had friends who were salesmen, they'd advise me, "You
just mark, 'Yes', everywhere, and deal with it if someone argues."
 
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John Roth

Cameron Laird said:
I've been advised that
<URL: http://www.smallscript.com/Language Comparison Chart.asp >
is open to correction in its Python column. Who wants to tackle
this? Python certainly supports interaction, we have plenty to boast
about in regard to foreign functions, we offer GUIs in abundance, ...

They seem rather liberal. If Python supports private methods and
variables (and JavaScript does native threads!?!) (but somebody seems
to have it in for C++), we might as well argue it gives root classes,
too.

I wouldn't. To me, a root class is a common class that is **the**
root of the object hierarchy, in some useful sense such as
contributing numerous common methods. Granted, new style
classes are rooted in object, but object doesn't seem to
contribute much except for __getattribute__.
I think if I had friends who were salesmen, they'd advise me, "You
just mark, 'Yes', everywhere, and deal with it if someone argues."

Jason Voegele's paper also needs some corrections. (Pixeldate's
seems to go to a porn site.)

I see your point: there are a huge number of question marks in
the Python column. Some of them I don't know how to fill out,
and a few of them I don't know what he's talking about, frankly.

John Roth
 
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Cameron Laird

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the Python column. Some of them I don't know how to fill out,
and a few of them I don't know what he's talking about, frankly.
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And a few make me laugh, in the well-we-know-what-*you*-have-
on-your-mind vein (see how high on the list tail reduction is?).
 

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