From: Harry Ohlsen Date: 2002-09-08T07:48:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby > That's something that's too often forgotten. Procedural is really a subset > of OO. You can write a (high-level) C program within Java. One student I > know did it as a protest. 500 lines inside main(). Not even any > functions. As far as I know, he now works for Red Hat. Well, they must have stopped off in Australia for a short while in-between uni and Redhat. A couple of years ago, I re-wrote a program a previous contract "programmer" had written in precisely the same way ... only, it was about 2000 lines of code :-(. Mind you, it only took a couple of days to do it properly, compared to the three months they'd spent writing (more likely, debugging!) the original bilge.