dynamic classes and duck typing

[Walter Bright]

bearophile wrote:
> Right. But what people care in the end is programs that get the work
> done. If a mix of Python plus C/C++ libs are good enough and handy
> enough then they get used. For example I am able to use the PIL
> Python lib with Python to load, save and process jpeg images at
> high-speed with few lines of handy code. So I don't care if PIL is
> written in C++: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

Sure, but that's not about the language. It's about the richness of the 
ecosystem that supports the language, and Python certainly has a rich one.