Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:45:59 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Greg Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do hackers drive? Message-ID: <20031123164558.GB557@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031101205412.GA15226@bishop.my.domain> References: <3FA301F6.2010208@potentialtech.com> <20031101175942.GA2082@online.fr> <20031101205412.GA15226@bishop.my.domain>
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:54:12PM -0500, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:59:42PM -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > > I've always had a uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach that C++ > > > and other OO languages were more complicated than they needed to be. > > > > I could never get figure out C++, the syntax was too complex for me, > > maybe I never approached it the right way. (Same problem with perl.) > > > > On the other hand, a few months ago I tried out python and it was love > > at first sight. Initially I was writing stuff in a procedural way but > > I'm beginning to grok OO ideas now and it seems to all just make sense. > > I wish there was a good compiler for it though, speed is important in a > > lot of the things I do. Subsequently, I also dabbled in lisp a bit, > > does anyone use it these days for serious new projects (as opposed to > > emacs/maxima/other ancient stuff)? > > > > Quoted on http://www.smalltalk.org : > > > > "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have > > C++ in mind." - Alan Kay > > > > - Rahul > > I'm a non-programmer. Is it the OO languages that talk about > "methods" when it looks like they're talking about something like > functions, or is that something else? You are correct. In OO languages the function and data are one unit where as in the the traditional programma there are seperate. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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