The History of Python: Adding Support for User-defined Classes

[cstejerean]

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/adding-support-for-user-defined-classes.html

[functional-tree]

Interesting that Guido didn't want to have an explicit "self" variable initially. Turned out to be a good idea in retrospect, in terms of clarity. When I head back to C/C++ code, I often find myself adding "this->" all over the place out of habit.