On 12/13/2010 6:08 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
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>>
>> I doubt if there are a lot that can simultaneously think in procedural
>> and object concepts, though. Someone who learns that code and data are
>> different things and that data is not to be trusted will have a hard
>> time dealing with objects where the only way to access data is to
>> execute code associated with it.
>>
>
> I don't know about that. I started on Apple Integer BASIC back in 1980,
> dropped to assembly on multiple platforms, and eventually ended up doing
> OO style design in Perl in the 90s *before* it officially had OO. I
> remember my sister commenting something to the effect that I seemed to
> design code mentally in OO styles regardless of the actual
> implementation language a decade or so ago.
It's one thing to build complex data structures (like making your basic
C data type "array of struct ...") so you can iterate nicely, but
something else to think the code belongs to it.
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Les Mikesell
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