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Java is like 3-4 years older than Python.

• icedchai 6y ago
  You may have that backwards. The first releases of Python happened in the early 90's.
  • bluedino 6y ago
    Ah - that's what I meant to post.
• toyg 6y ago
  Python actually was first released in 1991, as James Gosling and friends had just started working on Java, but I can't even remember if python 1.x had classes at all. Java was everywhere pretty much as soon as it landed in 1995, because SUN pushed it like crazy and loads of shops were actually looking for something better than C/C++ for a large number of apps. By the time Python 2.0 was released in 2000, OOP was pretty much a requirement for anything, and I'm pretty sure that had classes. Python didn't reach popularity in the mainstream until the late '00s anyway.
  • bluedino 6y ago
    Python had objects in Python 1.4, according to documentation released on 25 October 1996. Python.org doesn't have anything older than that on their site.