RE: Insight: Prothon is an Acquisition-oriented language

Paul Prescod wrote:

>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.

Could this be a seed for David's column topic?