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[Yigal Duppen]

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> OOP seems to be one of those things that people
> either "get" straight away or struggle with for ages.

Speaking from personal experience, I suspect that it depends on previous 
programming exposure. My first encounter with objects was in the days of 
Turbo Pascal 5.5; I never got it.

Then I learned about Abstract Data Types at university, and it slowly dawned 
- -- but I still didn't "get" it completely.

It took a full year of Java exposure and an experienced colleague to finally 
see the impact of OO. And once I understood it in Java, OO in SmallTalk, 
Python, Object Pascal... all made sense _automatically_. 

Only Perl OO remains a mystery :-)

But getting back to my original point: I suspect that once you have been 
contaminated by purely procedural programming, it takes a lot of mind bending 
to understand OO in its entirety.

YDD
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~yduppen
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