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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Threads across programming languages
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 23:24:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 2 May 2024 17:10:47 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> Am 02.05.2024 um 15:53 schrieb David Brown:
> 
>> You also claimed that classes are first-class objects in C++.
> 
> I never said that ...

No, you just ignored the point.

> ... and having sth. like class Class in Java is beyond
> C++'s performance constraints.

Java’s ”Class” object is a pretty pitiful, awkward and crippled attempt at 
run-time manipulation of classes. Still falls far short of Python’s full 
treatment of classes as first-class objects.

That also extends to the fact that Python classes, being objects, must be 
instances of classes themselves. The class that a class is an instance of 
is called its “metaclass”.