There's no reason you can't do this 'classless' in Python.
Sure. At that point in my comment, I was no longer comparing languages, and merely commenting on the implementation of the linked article.
Sure. At that point in my comment, I was no longer comparing languages, and merely commenting on the implementation of the linked article.
I've seen similar Python code that takes the Perl approach, as well as code where the 'daemonizer' is a function that takes a function (which is the main event loop of the daemon) as an argument.
In this case it's a design, not a language decision.