From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T20:49:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby interpreter is writed in c (not in c++)?

Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> I'm not sure it will be superseded any time soon, objects being a very
> natural way for people to think about real-world problems.

It may be natural for some people, but I have to force myself into 
trying to think in an OO way. I think procedurally, but that may well be 
a result of too much Fortran, Basic and assembler in my formative years. 
;-)

It seems very natural to me to say "Here's some data; perform this 
process on it". I like to think of data as analogous to nouns, and 
procedures as analogous to verbs. So "process(data)" seems like English 
to me, very natural.

Most of my programs have this form:
  - Input some data
  - Process it
  - Output the result

but that might just be the sort of programming I do (engineering and web 
mostly). In an OO language like Java or Ruby I tend to do this sort of 
thing:

  dp = DataProcessor.new
  dp.load(data)
  dp.process
  results = dp.get_output

Not very OO-orthodox, I suspect.

Dave
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