Insight: Prothon is an Acquisition-oriented language

Prothon is a language organized around what Python-people call Acquisition:

http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/WhatIsAcquisition

Of course, Acquisition has gotten mixed reviews in the Zope world:

"One particular innovative feature of Zope is its real world use of 
acquisition, a programming technique orthogonal to inheritance in object 
oriented programming. In acquisition, objects 'inherit' behavior from 
their context in a composition hierarchy, as opposed their class in a 
class hierarchy. This allows certain ways to structure source code that 
are otherwise harder to accomplish, and can encourage application 
decomposition. A common use is in structuring the way layout elements 
are used in a web page. Acquisition as implemented in Zope 2 is also 
perceived as a source of bugs, however."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zope

Either way, it is interesting to see that implementing Acquisition in 
Zope took C hacking (today it could probably be done with metaclasses) 
but in Prothon it would have been just "built-in". You would just use 
the protoList to represent the containment hierarchy and acquisition 
would happen automatically.

  Paul Prescod