From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T05:19:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:48:18AM +0900, Andrew Hunt wrote:
> 
> I thinks that's why so many people have trouble mastering OO concepts:
> because it's taught as a sort of an add-on to already entrenched 
> procedural, linear thinking.  It's been my experience that you get
> better mileage is you start with objects right out of the gate -- which
> is exactly what Dave and I did in the pickaxe book.

Hmm, this comment reminds me of when I took Sun's "Java Programming
Language" couse a couple of years ago. It was advertised as being for C
and C++ programmers, and on the first day the instructor spent a good
deal of time making sure everybody knew the prerequisites were no joke.
Unsurprisingly, the lessons made frequent references to C and C++
concepts, which were mostly over my head. But with my Python background,
I had very little trouble with the parts of the course that were
actually about Java (can't say the same for all my classmates, many of
whom did have the prerequisites).

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Matt Gushee
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