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> as the OO-ness has been tacked onto Python afterwards This is a myth, if I recall correctly. Python had the OO-ness from the very beginning. It might seem "

• bhaak 12y ago
  Well, they were added before the first public release (0.9.0 IIRC) but were not considered from the start and if I remember Guido's write-up correctly, it was more of a design hack because somebody mentioned with Python's internal design at that time, it would have been easy to add some sort of classes. I'm no expert in the internals of Python and its evolution, so I actually don't know how much that influenced the actual design of the classes later on but it always seemed plausible from what I've seen and also given the fact that Guido himself often says that the very first version didn't have a class statement.
  • Peaker 12y ago
    Do you have a link to Guido saying that?
    • bhaak 12y ago
      An extensive discussion on the early implementation of Python classes: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/adding-support-for-user-defined-classes.html http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/adding-support-fo... Or here in this also quite interesting talk about "21 Years of Python" hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqu10JV7dk&t=49m50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqu10JV7dk&t=49m50s