On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 12:19:18 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > Python certainly is procedural. A script starts at the top and executes > through to the bottom and ends, barring any flow control in the middle. > Like Perl you can use it in many different ways and paradigms including > OO if you desire.
That's not the point. In Python, regular expressions are a class. So are strings and lists. In Perl, there are no classes. Procedural paradigm means that you are modelling the real world with the objects provided by the computer environment: strings, numbers, lists or hashes (known as "dictionaries" in Python). OO paradigm allows you to create objects and make them behave like in the real world. In other words, in OO paradighm, data and functions are related. The basic idea of the OO was to make code sharing much easier. However, things do not always work as they should: https://medium.com/better-programming/object-oriented-programming-the-trillion-dollar-disaster-92a4b666c7c7 https://towardsdatascience.com/object-oriented-programming-is-dead-wait-really-db1f1f05cc44 Of course, not everybody agrees. People never do: https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/object-oriented-programming-dead-not-long-shot Sometimes, OO has its funny side: https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/that-time-the-australian-air-force-squared-off-against-missile-shooting-kangaroos -- Mladen Gogala Database Consultant http://mgogala.byethost5.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
