> The type of dynamic language gymnastics done with Python is huge
Have you seen Ruby?
Ruby is essentially Smalltalk (see also Objective-C).
I don't know Python's innards well enough to understand why it's so especially difficult in this regard, but I gather around the edges that its object model may not be as well founded.
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Ruby is essentially Smalltalk (see also Objective-C).
I don't know Python's innards well enough to understand why it's so especially difficult in this regard, but I gather around the edges that its object model may not be as well founded.