classes, since when?

Guido,

I'm in a discussion on the Prothon list, and I made a claim
out of my head, but cannot find references. So I'm asking you:

You started the Python Project in 1990, right?
As far as I can remember, you initially did not
plan for classes, and added it later in the simplest
way you could think og. Is this right? I think to remember this
from private communication with you, but I don't have all my life's
emails, still, although I'd love to. So it might be possible that
I invented the story, in a way, and I'd like to confirm.

My memory is like this:
You said, if they insist in classes, ok, then simple.
Have a __dict__ with all the methods, have a tuple
with the parent classes.
A class has type class, an instance has type instance.

And I think I remember that you initially were not so convinced
about having classes at all, so you did the minimum, including the
explicit self parameter.

Is this approximately right?

Classobject.c was initially released on 1990/10/14, earlier than
the initial ceval.c, which is from 1990/11/18.

Can you tell me when the project really began, probably before leaving
any traces in CVS?
And when were classes introduced in discussions, and where did these
discussions take place? I can't find archives older than 1996.

thanks so much -- chris
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