Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces

Douglas Philips <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:32:54 -0500
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>     Are all languages that use object dispatch on a par with Java?
> (Python, for example?)

Hardly, Python admits of ("horrors!") naked functions.


>     I think you are appealing to Logical Fallacy #41, the Straw Man  
> argument:
>
> http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html

Now who is it that is humor impaired?
"Everything is a noun" "Everything is a verb" are both extremes that  
are less than useful most of the time, esp. in the world you posit of  
ever increasing software complexity nee scalability. (Erlang is the  
Jester of that court, but we digress).

--Doug